Public Awareness and Advocacy Committee: Advocacy in a Global Pandemic

Patient advocacy to promote public awareness about thrombosis and thrombophilia.

For the last 22 years I have worked as a lobbyist in Washington, DC representing medical and healthcare organizations on issues ranging from funds for biomedical research to payment for specific medical technologies and services. In that time I have learned that health policy decisions are strongly affected by the organized voice of patients and their families. Whether the issue has been liver ...

Innovative Breast Cancer Awareness and Advocacy Campaign

Breast cancer is a major disease in Nigeria; in 2012, 27,304 new occurrences were diagnosed, and the number of mortalities was 13,960. Greater than 70% of patients present with advanced disease, which has a poor survival outcome. The mortality rates are high mainly because of a lack of awareness about breast health, screening guidelines, and treatment centers, and because of sociocultural barri...

Advocacy in public health: roles and challenges.

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.

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...