In the medical profession, activities related to ensuring access to care, navigating the
system, mobilizing resources, addressing health inequities, influencing health policy and …

Purpose: To develop components of a curriculum for teaching and evaluating Residents as
health advocates. Method: Modeled on the Delphi technique, the first step involved a …

Context Health advocacy is an essential component of postgraduate medical education, and
is part of many physician competency frameworks such as the Canadian Medical Education …

Health advocacy is being formalized as a professional activity for physicians across North
America, but the accommodation of this activity into conceptions of daily practice has been …

Purpose Despite its official acceptance as an important physician responsibility, health
advocacy remains difficult to define, teach, role model, and assess. The aim of the current …

This article discusses the relationship between health literacy and advocacy for health and
health education, cites achievement of advocacy as a critical outcome of health education …

Advocacy for the public's health and for the profession are widely recognized as
responsibilities of health educators. Increasing emphasis on advocacy by professional …

Purpose Recent national events, including the COVID-19 pandemic and protests of racial
inequities, have drawn attention to the role of physicians in advocating for improvements in …

Health educators have created a new professional role that emphasizes the changing of
individuals rather than their social conditions. The article shows how historical roots …

Background Professionalism standards encourage physicians to participate in public
advocacy on behalf of societal health and well-being. While the number of publications of …