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Health Promotion International, Vol. 15, No. 4, 369-376,
December 2000
© Oxford University Press 2000
Health promotion, advocacy and health inequalities: a conceptual framework
Public Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Medical School, Teviot Place, Edinburgh EH8 9AG, UK
Address for correspondence: Sandra Carlisle Public Health Sciences University of Edinburgh Medical School Teviot Place Edinburgh EH8 9AG UK e-mail: sandra.carlisle{at}ed.ac.uk
Advocacy has often been described as a key strategy for the achievement of health promotion aims, but multiple and conflicting definitions and usages exist. The concept itself may be unnecessarily intimidating. Advocacy work can take place at the level of both ‘cases’ and ‘causes’. Two main goals underpin health advocacy—protection of the vulnerable (representational advocacy) and empowerment of the disadvantaged (facilitational advocacy). This paper attempts to integrate existing models and definitions into a conceptual framework for considering the role of advocacy in addressing health inequalities. It argues that we need to pay some attention to the diversity of values and goals of health promotion if we are to understand which models and approaches to health advocacy apply and in what context. This paper concludes that advocacy for health fulfils two functions: as a form of practice and as a useful strategy for a discipline which has to be self-promoting as well as health-promoting in order to survive in the competitive political environment of contemporary health work.
Key words: advocacy; health inequalities
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