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...

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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...

Perspective: Physician advocacy: what is it and how do we do it?

Many medical authors and organizations have called for physician advocacy as a core component of medical professionalism. Despite widespread acceptance of advocacy as a professional obligation, the concept remains problematic within the profession of medicine because it remains undefined in concept, scope, and practice. If advocacy is to be a professional imperative, then medical schools and gr...