Commentary: The ACGME: Public Advocacy Before Resident Advocacy

Commentary: advocacy perspective.

A supporting research for a new generation of medications to treat major mental illness, recognizing that the old medications had significant problems with side effects and, in some cases, efficacy. About 10 years ago, new medica-tions—atypical antipsychotics and new antidepressants— began to appear. There was great celebration within NAMI because, for the first time, scientific advances joined...

Public Advocacy in the Indian Context

Public Advocacy is a mode of social action. The nature and character of Public Advocacy, to a large extent is shaped up by the political culture, social systems and the constitutional framework of the country in which it is being practised. The definition and a theoretical understanding of Public Advocacy can only be derived from the varied practices of influencing decision making and public po...

Advocacy.

Essential contraceptives: public movement and technical advocacy.

©FSRH J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2008: 34(4) Summary User choice is central to contraceptive practice, as opposed to therapeutic care where the view of the prescriber tends to prevail. Provider organisations have to make difficult decisions in selecting the methods of contraception that are offered, particularly with the multitude of new products and the controversies that have surrounded t...

Advocacy for public health: a primer.

Public health advocacy is the strategic use of news media to advance a public policy initiative, often in the face of opposition.