Community health advocacy

The concept of health advocacy is nowadays considered one of the main tasks of public health. Health professionals try to solve health problems with effective strategies. One of them is, specifically, community health advocacy. To act on health problems in the global context, participation and communitarian perspective is a choice. People need advocacy and empowerment to achieve health outcomes more than isolated health interventions assistance. Although the role of health services is important to promote and secure health, there are other issues that are important to guarantee people’s health. Community, organisations, and institutions must advocate for health with the necessary tools and in the context of each society.

“Community health advocacy” is a reflection on the role of different issues in relation with an empowering view of public health. To conceptualise the subject, the authors define terms as community, needs, action, grassroots, …