The article provides an overview of the sociological literature on users’ involvement in health care. It discusses how users’ involvement has been conceptualized by most eminent scholars in regard to the central issue of empowerment. Two different streams of research are then presented that we have defined as the ‘voluntarist route’ and the ‘technological’ one. We will focus on the latter in more detail, not only because it has been recently developed, but also because empowerment and engagement are frequently recalled, yet not enough problematised, in the rhetoric on digital health.
Coinvolgimento degli utenti nei processi di cura ed empowerment: una nota di lettura / Bronzini, Micol. - In: AUTONOMIE LOCALI E SERVIZI SOCIALI. - ISSN 0392-2278. - 2:(2017), pp. 363-380. [10.1447/88339]
Coinvolgimento degli utenti nei processi di cura ed empowerment: una nota di lettura
Micol Bronzini
2017-01-01
Abstract
The article provides an overview of the sociological literature on users’ involvement in health care. It discusses how users’ involvement has been conceptualized by most eminent scholars in regard to the central issue of empowerment. Two different streams of research are then presented that we have defined as the ‘voluntarist route’ and the ‘technological’ one. We will focus on the latter in more detail, not only because it has been recently developed, but also because empowerment and engagement are frequently recalled, yet not enough problematised, in the rhetoric on digital health.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.