“…Studies have shown that patient empowerment begins with information search about one's own illness, make choices about care and participate in treatment decisions and able to take responsibility for their own healing (Chang, 2020;Lau, 2002). This term has most often been studied to show how patients assert greater control over their own health within the healthcare centric designed system of empowerment (Boudioni et al, 2018;Denecke et al, 2017;Tartaglione et al, 2018). Little is known about the journey of how patients are empowered within their place-based social contextual environment, and how healthcare management can design patient empowerment strategies from the patient domain and extend them outside the clinical setting.…”