Patients as regulatory actors in their own health care

This chapter discusses the ways in which an individual patient can be a regulatory actor in ensuring that the treatment he/she receives is safe and of good quality. While health policies now promote patients as regulatory actors, this is not an easy role for patients to undertake. This is so for sev...

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Published inRegulatory Theory p. 591
Main Author Judith Healy
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published ANU Press 23.02.2017
Subjects
Administrative law
Business
Business information
Commercial regulation
Consumer research
Customer complaints
Customer feedback
Economic disciplines
Economic regulation
Economics
Employment
Government
Government regulation
Health care facilities
Health care industry
Health care quality
Health sciences
Hospitals
Insurance regulation
Jurisprudence
Labor economics
Law
Medical personnel
Occupations
Patient safety
Political science
Public administration
Regulatory theory
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Summary:This chapter discusses the ways in which an individual patient can be a regulatory actor in ensuring that the treatment he/she receives is safe and of good quality. While health policies now promote patients as regulatory actors, this is not an easy role for patients to undertake. This is so for several reasons, including the weight of knowledge and power inherent in health professionals (particularly doctors) compared with patients. Building on my earlier work (Healy 2011a; Healy 2011b: Chapter 9; Healy and Dugdale 2009), this chapter addresses the following regulatory concepts, dilemmas and questions: Why regulate: What is the rationale
ISBN:9781760461010
1760461016