7.5 Health advocate
Health advocacy is an essential and fundamental component of health promotion. Health advocacy is appropriately expressed both by individual and collective actions of physicians in influencing public health and policy.
How?
- Respond to individual patient health needs and issues as part of patient care;
- Respond to the health needs of the communities that they serve;
- Identify the determinants of health of the populations that they serve;
- Promote the health of individual patients, communities and populations.