6 - Advocacy Flashcards
What is advocacy?
It is the set of skills that helps individuals address the issues and concerns that affect their daily lives and the lives of others.
What are the 4 motives to advocacy?
1.) Education
2.) Mobilization
3.) Policy Change
4.) Policy Implementation
What are the principal aims of advocacy?
- Draft new policies
- reform policies
- ensure policies are implemented
What are the 2 different healthcare advocacies that exist?
Individual vs. Group
What does the individual healthcare advocacy involve?
Patient advocates, who work specifically with or on behalf of individuals patients and families
What does the group healthcare advocacy involve?
Where health advocates work in groups and are more focused on communities, policies or the system as a whole.
What are the requirements for an effective healthcare advocacy?
1.) Framework
2.) Evidence
3.) A champion for the cause
4.) Appropriate framing of the message
5.) Looking for the best time raise awareness
6.) Collaboration with other organizations
What are some barriers to healthcare advocacy?
1.) Economic climate
2.) Type of relationships with government
3.) Prevalent social norms
4.) The biomedical health model is a predominant model and governments often focus on this
5.) Short political terms
What is an Advocacy Coalition Framework?
- They are agents that work together over a period of time to influence a policy
- Coalitions are often formed based on shared values, beliefs, and focus on a policy subsystem (specific area of interest)
What are coalitions?
They are what form based on shared values, and beliefs and focus on a policy subsystem (specific area of interest)
What are policy learnings in the advocacy coalition framework?
They are what lead a coalition to refine and adapt its belief system in order to achieve its objectives. The policy debates help coalitions defend the core aspects of their belief systems and at times change secondary beliefs
What are the 3 belief systems in ACF?
1.) Deep core beliefs
2.) Policy core
3.) Secondary beliefs
What do deep core beliefs entail?
- broad, general beliefs
- more resistant to change
What do policy core beliefs entail?
- moderate beliefs that help guide the strategic behaviour of a coalition and help join allies and divide opponents
What do secondary beliefs entail?
They are narrow in scope
They are lease resistant to change.
