TY  - JOUR
T1  - ADvocacy by any other name would smell as sweet
AU  - Chamberlain LJ, Sanders LM, Takayama JI
Y1  - 2006/04/01
N1  - 10.1001/archpedi.160.4.453
JO  - Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
SP  - 453
EP  - 453
VL  - 160
IS  - 4
N2  - 
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

SN  - 1072-4710
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archpedi.160.4.453
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpedi.160.4.453
ER  -