It is an honor and privilege to address you as president of the American Society for Clinical Investigation. For more than 100 years, this organization has represented the best of physician-scientists. Since it is now 2012, there is the possibility that this could be the last ASCI presidential address. But we will assume the Mayans miscalculated and that we should look to the future. With the A...

Policy scholars have increasingly focused on collaborative and competitive relationships between stakeholder coalitions. The Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) in particular has directed scholarly attention toward such relationships. ACF defines advocacy coalitions as groups of actors who share beliefs coordinate their action. However, previous research been inconsistent defining measuring coal...

Advocacy for patients is seen as a necessary function of nursing; nonetheless, being selfadvocates of nursing has not. The American Nurses Association Code of Ethics for Nurses (2001) states: “The nurse owes the same duty to self as to others...” Advocacy is recognized as essential in numerous fields and presents an intricate concept. The intent of this paper is to use the Walker and Advant (20...

AIMS To ascertain the type and extent of problems requiring advocacy in paediatrics. To develop an approach for analysing problems according to their root causes and the level of society at which advocacy is needed. METHODS Nine paediatricians kept detailed clinical diaries for two weeks to identify problems. Classifications were developed to categorise problems by cause and the level of soci...

The advocacy debate in ecology and conservation goes back a long way. In the early part of the twentieth century some ecologists were actively pursuing nature conservation, but others eschewed this kind of activism. When the Ecological Society of America (ESA) formed in 1915, a divide already existed regarding the mission of the society and the role of advocacy for preservation of natural areas...

Purpose. To determine family medicine residents' perceived knowledge and attitudes towards the built environment and their responsibility for health advocacy and to identify their perceived educational needs and barriers to patient education and advocacy. Methods. A web-based survey was conducted in Canada with University of Toronto family medicine residents. Data were analyzed descriptively. R...

INTRODUCTION Technological advances and increased utilization have helped establish radiology as one of the preeminent professions inmedicine.However,we are now facing serious challenges as the United States embarks on a generational reassessment of health care services, financing, and priorities. Radiology, in particular, with its prominent profile, has been and will continue to be at risk. Ho...

This paper examines the strategies used by some third sector organizations in Australia to advocate. The purpose of this paper is to identify the kinds of activities that organizations in New South Wales (NSW) and Queensland use to promote advocacy, the kinds of language that is used to describe these activities, and the reasons given for the particular strategies adopted. The extent to which t...

In November 2003, the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network convened a meeting in Montréal of global experts working in the fields of treatments, vaccines, and microbicides. The meeting was historic in that it was the first occasion on which advocates from the three fields had the opportunity to meet and exchange views on policy priorities. In this article, John Godwin provides a summary of the backg...