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Managing Your Health, 1999 edition

Introduction

Advocacy
Advocacy involves identifying and trying to reduce barriers to health care that may exist in institutions, government policies, or social systems. Advocacy can be done on an individual basis or systemically. In individual advocacy, an attempt is made to solve the problems of one person: for example, finding housing for someone. In systemic advocacy, an attempt is made to change the policies or behaviour of institutions or societies to improve the situation of many people: for example, finding government funds for housing projects. Advocacy can take many forms, including meetings with policy makers; research; using the media; demonstrations; legal challenges; and being persistent in getting answers from social-assistance workers and health-care providers.

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