title: Market empowerment of the patient: the French experience.
abstract: Through analysis of the French experience, this article explores the way economic policy has sought to encourage active, well-informed patients by giving them market power. The new status of the patient as consumer is based on two foundations: the endeavour to build a healthcare market and the activation of demand-based policies. The keystone of this new system is a conception of the market as a process constructed by economic policy. Recent measures such as the standardization of care and the introduction of incentives to respect a treatment pathway then constitute effective levers to establish a free-market rationale.
authors.affiliation: Université Paris Quest Nanterre-La Defense.
authors.forename: Philippe
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Batifoulier
authors.forename: Jean-Paul
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Domin
authors.forename: Maryse
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gadreau
mesh_terms: D054626:Consumer Health Information / Q000191:economics / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D004467:Economics / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D005602:France / Q000208:ethnology; D019981:Health Care Sector / Q000191:economics / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D028701:Patient Rights / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D010361:Patients / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000523:psychology; D011209:Power, Psychological; D059039:Standard of Care / Q000191:economics / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence