Empowerment: a process through which people gain greater control over decisions and actions that affect their health.

Enabling: acting in partnership with individuals or communities to facilitate greater empowerment – through mobilization of community and material resources – to promote and protect health.

Source: WHO framework for meaningful engagement of people living with noncommunicable diseases, and mental health and neurological conditions. Internet. https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240073074 Accessed on May 15, 2024.