WHAT IS A PERSON-CENTERED HEALTH SYSTEM?

WHAT IS A PERSON-CENTERED HEALTH SYSTEM?
A person-centered health system has four dimensions:
Health: The system will help most people understand, be responsible for,
and be able to take care of their own health to the maximum degree
possible.
Health care: The system will make available the most effective professional
and institutional resources to assist people when they can no longer manage
their own health without that help. The system will embrace and promote
the principles of ‘patient-centeredness’─self-care, personalization,
transparency, redesign, quality, justice, and control.
Financing: Every individual and organization – from the patient to the
medical school to Medicare – will accept responsibility to use expensive
resources appropriately and efficiently.
Citizenship: Society will embrace an explicit consensus of our
responsibilities to each other – and the limits of that responsibility.