Consider the advocacy framework (Figure 1) outlined in this recommended reading:
Carlisle, S. (2000) Health promotion, advocacy and health inequalities: a conceptual framework, Health Promotion International,15(4); 369–376, https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/15.4.369
Public health advocacy can be described and categorised according to who or what is being advocated for or in relation to the function an advocate is performing.
Carlisle (2000) defined four types of advocacy: Representation, Community development, Community activism and Social policy reform.
1. Identify a health promotion example that fits in each of the four categories above.
2. Where does the majority of health promotion advocacy strategies sit? Why might this be? (100-150 words)
3. What are the dilemmas involved in being both a health professional and an advocate? Are there some that are particularly pertinent to you? How and why? (100-150 words)
The following are essential readings for this module that you can review prior to completing the workbook.
Baum, F. (2016). Public Health Advocacy and Activism. In The New Public Health (4th edition., pp. 565–583).
South Melbourne, Victoria: Oxford University Press.
Laverack, G. (2013). The future role of health activism. In Health Activism: Foundations and Strategies (pp. 137–145). London: SAGE Publications.
Denniss, R. (2016). What Can Be Done? In Econobabble142: how to decode political spin and economic nonsense (pp. 142–158). Carlton, VIC, Australia : Redback Quarterly.
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