PATIENT-CENTERED MEDICINE. A NEW REALITY

Abstract

The literary analysis is presented to underline the importance and controversy of the meaning of patient-centered medicine, which attracts more and more researchers and practitioners. The origins of this concept are reviewed, its further directions as a novel generalized physician approach to a human with opportunity to launch positive dynamics on all levels from somatic to social and cultural. A range of questions is taken, and the pathways sketched towards conceptualization and evidence base for practical implementation of patient-centered paradigm.

Keywords

• person-centered medicine
• patient-centered interview
• psychosomatics
• rehabilitation
• prevention
• non-communicable diseases