Community health advocacy

Engaging students in community health: a public health advocacy curriculum.

Individual risk assessment and behavior change dominate the content of high school health education instruction whereas broader social, political, and economic factors that influence health-known as upstream causes-are less commonly considered. With input from instructors and students, we developed a 10-lesson experiential Public Health Advocacy Curriculum that uses classroom-based activities t...

Project CHARGE: building an urban health policy advocacy community.

BACKGROUND The Coalition for Health Access to Reach Greater Equity (Project CHARGE) is a health policy advocacy coalition devoted to improving healthcare access for Asian Americans in New York City. OBJECTIVES This paper discusses Project CHARGE's strategies for building a successful coalition. METHODS Findings are based on evaluation data from field observations and surveys of Coalition re...

Global Health Watch Canada? Mobilizing the Canadian public health community around a global health advocacy agenda.

Growing poverty, collapsing health care systems, the AIDS pandemic and the widening of health and health care inequities within and between countries all point to the limited success of global public health interventions over the past few decades. Notwithstanding the efforts of multilateral agencies such as the World Health Organization and the many existing contributions from the Canadian comm...

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Public health advocacy and chiropractic: a guide to helping your community reach its health objectives.

OBJECTIVE Doctors of chiropractic (DCs) provide health educational and promotion efforts in the communities they serve by counseling patients at the individual level. This article outlines a method and model in which DCs can effectively serve as public health advocates within their community. DISCUSSION The social ecological model of health education and health promotion serves as an excellen...