RT Journal
A1 Chamberlain LJ, Sanders LM, Takayama JI
T1 ADvocacy by any other name would smell as sweet
JF Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
JO Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
YR 2006
FD April 1
VO 160
IS 4
SP 453
OP 453
DO 10.1001/archpedi.160.4.453
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpedi.160.4.453
AB 
It is important to determine what is meant by advocacy both in terms of its historical roots and dynamic boundaries. We would suggest that this is a dynamic conversation involving pediatrics and beyond. We believe that the term advocacy incorporates a broad range of physician engagement. To advocate is when one “defends, maintains, publicly recommends, or raises his voice in behalf of a proposal or tenet.”3 The venue is not inherent in the definition. This personal calling to “publicly defend” can manifest at the individual level in the clinic or hospital1; at the system level, for example, in hospital administrative meetings4; in the community5; or in the policy arena.6