in his recent study, gordon shen analyses a pertinent question facing the global mental health research and practice community today; that of how and why mental health policy is or is not adopted by national governments. this study identifies becoming a world health organization (who) member nation, and being in regional proximity to countries which have adopted a mental health policy as suppor...

We examine the efficacy of a paraprofessional advocacy program for improving health and social outcomes of high-risk substance-abusing mothers and their children. This intervention included 3 years of home visitation, advocacy, and connection with appropriate community services. To assess the overall effectiveness of the model, clients were compared to concurrently enrolled controls on a compos...

Recently there has been an increased interest in using targeted advertising online: a user is presented with advertisements that are more suitable, based on her past browsing and search behavior and other available information (e.g., her gender and age information registered on a website). This technique is known as behavioral targeting and besides receiving scrutiny from user advocacy groups a...

BACKGROUND A key task for the pharmaceutical industry is to understand the compliance implications of engaging with a patient advocacy group (PAG). This presents challenges for the industry to negotiate the ethical and reputational issues that can arise when working with a PAG. OBJECTIVE To gain the views of pharmaceutical industry executives on future compliance challenges when working with ...

Perhaps the greatest challenge we face today in medical education is how to establish a conceptual framework for conveying the context of community pediatrics and issues related to child health equity and social justice to practicing pediatricians and pediatricians in training. This will require a new infrastructure and approach to training to allow pediatricians to think and practice different...

INTRODUCTION Future physician leaders must be able to critically assess health care policy and patient advocacy issues. Currently, no nationally accepted, standardized curriculum to provide advocacy education during orthopedic residency training exists. We therefore developed an "Advocacy" curriculum for our orthopedic residents designed to direct particular attention to patient advocacy, speci...