Self-help friendliness: A German approach for strengthening the cooperation between self-help groups and health care professionals

Christopher Kofahl, Alf Trojan, Olaf von dem Knesebeck and Stefan Nickel

Social Science & Medicine, 2014, vol. 123, issue C, 217-225

Abstract: Public and patient involvement in social and health care has proceeded in many civil societies. Depending on the legislations on national and community levels, citizens and patients have a greater say in shaping social and health care. In Germany, the patient involvement by self-help organizations at the macro level (national level and level of federal states) has significantly developed over the last ten years. At the meso level, however, the patient involvement is neither such far nor such systematically developed.

Keywords: Self-help groups; Self-help organizations; Self-help friendliness; Patient involvement; Participation; Cooperation; Quality management; Germany (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.06.051

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