Background Advocacy coalitions play an increasingly prominent role within the global health landscape, linking actors and institutions to attract political attention and resources. This paper examines how coalitions negotiate among themselves and exercise hidden forms of power to produce policy on the basis of their beliefs and strategic interests.   Methods This paper examines the beliefs and ...

A supporting research for a new generation of medications to treat major mental illness, recognizing that the old medications had significant problems with side effects and, in some cases, efficacy. About 10 years ago, new medica-tions—atypical antipsychotics and new antidepressants— began to appear. There was great celebration within NAMI because, for the first time, scientific advances joined...

This descriptive study summarized data from a child advocacy center to illustrate how such information might be used to profile the scope and character of child sexual abuse (CSA) at the community level. This detailed information is not available from national or state data but is needed to understand the circumstances of the children receiving services and the type of care they may need. Varia...

PURPOSE To understand the influence of a community-based child advocacy block rotation on the perspectives of first-year pediatric residents and whether this influence persists. METHOD The authors conducted semistructured interviews to assess the impact of the training program on pediatrics residents' perspectives regarding child advocacy and their understanding of the role of the community m...