On Physician Advocacy

Physician advocacy essential for Canada's First Nations.

Physician advocacy and the 2010 Health Care Reform Act.

Dramatic changes are being proposed in health care delivery in the United States and the main driver is reducing costs. The 2009 estimates suggest that the United States spent 2.6 trillion dollars (17.3% of GDP) on health care. The average for spending in the rest of the world was around 9% GDP. While the numbers can be debated, everyone understands that the rising cost of health care cannot be...

Advocacy with gloves on:

This paper examines the strategies used by some third sector organizations in Australia to advocate. The purpose of this paper is to identify the kinds of activities that organizations in New South Wales (NSW) and Queensland use to promote advocacy, the kinds of language that is used to describe these activities, and the reasons given for the particular strategies adopted. The extent to which t...

Advocacy.

The Importance of Physician Climate Advocacy in the Face of Political Denial.

Most physicians accept the general scientific discoveries about anthropogenic global warming and its dangers. Occasional denial by individual physicians of climate change can be readily answered by reference to the scientific consensus. But widespread, organized, political denial of climate change is hazardous to physicians' advocacy for an effective public health and health care response to cl...