From Medical Paternalism to Care Partnerships: A Logical Evolution Over Several Decades

Abstract

This chapter focuses on the Partnership in Care and Services movement that has progressively emerged in health care since the beginning of the 2000s. In order to fully understand the foundations of this movement, this following will explore the way that this movement has come about within healthcare delivery systems, in health education, research, and community work, in comparison and continuity with a variety of medical models that have evolved over time and led to this significant paradigm shift.