Power to advocate for health.

نویسنده

  • Kurt C Stange
چکیده

This is the seventh and fi nal editorial in a series about integrative approaches to promoting health and personalized, high-value health care.1-6 This editorial examines how we can develop the power to act on key values, knowledge, and principles to advance health for people, communities, and the population. This article asks the following questions: 1. What is moral authority and why is it important? 2. How can we understand the process for developing moral authority to advocate for health? 3. How might we act differently as individuals and as organizations if we developed this moral authority? The article concludes with a summary of the 7 pieces in this editorial series and an invitation to join the online discussion.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Annals of family medicine

دوره 8 2  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2010