7.5.4 Promotion
Promote the health of individual patients, communities, and populations
- Describe an approach to implementing a change in a determinant of health of the populations they serve
- Describe how public policy impacts on the health of the populations served
- Identify points of influence in the healthcare system and its structure
- Describe the ethical and professional issues inherent in health advocacy, including altruism, social justice, autonomy, integrity and idealism
- Appreciate the possibility of conflict inherent in their role as a health advocate for a patient or community with that of manager or gatekeeper
- Describe the role of the medical profession in advocating collectively for health and patient safety