Public Advocacy Writing

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.

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 in public health: roles and challenges.

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...