Talk:Patient advocacy

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message: The first sentence says "Patient advocacy is an area of lay specialization in health care concerned with patient education about the use of health plans and how to obtain needed care"
Is it supposed to say "lay specialization?" Just double checking. Thanks! Adamh4 (talk) 20:15, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the term "lay specialization" is very accurate. Patient advocates are not necessarily medical (or broader health-care) professionals, in the sense that they are licensed MD, nurses, or other paramedic professionals. Their main caracteristic is that they represent patients and (home or family)carers and give a voice to those groups in different levels of the public debate --DerekvG (talk) 11:26, 14 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Confused 

message: See identically named section at Talk:Health advocacy. —Shelley V. Adams ‹blamecredit› 15:52, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removal of October 2014 merge tags 

message: I've made a note to myself:  Merge Patient opinion leader into Patient advocacy.  Any remarks?  I shouldn't think this would be controversial.  --Hordaland (talk) 05:08, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Closing given the consensus not to merge. Klbrain (talk) 16:13, 14 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge 

message: I noticed that User:Neutrality  a large amount of WP:UNSOURCED content yesterday. In light of the final edit summary,  I thought it might be worthwhile to retain the material here and look for WP:RELIABLE sources, though some portions may also need to be rewritten in a more encyclopedic style. I have included wikilinks to relevant diffs and the article (sub)section where the material once appeared. —Shelley V. Adams ‹blamecredit› 16:33, 8 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Material deleted 7 October 2017 

message: The Health advocacy article contains information about advocacy for both health policy and individual patients. Since much of the latter duplicates content in this article, I propose splitting that content from Health advocacy and merging it into this article. —Shelley V. Adams ‹blamecredit› 17:08, 10 October 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I think a spliting content out of health advocacy is a good move. For clarity of other readers, it's important that advocating for a patients choice and rights  is quite different from trying to make them healthy by telling them what to do! Talpedia (talk) 19:30, 21 January 2022 (UTC)

text: Just muttering about some slight complexity here. Patient advocacy organizations will engage in health advocacy to prevent the disease whose sufferers they represent. In some cases patient advocacy organizations can be more health advocacy organizations than patient advocacy organizations. Talpedia (talk) 22:18, 19 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  October 2017 partial merge proposal 

message: Having read a reasonable amount of public health literature I don't think health advocacy and patient advocacy are that related. Patient advocacy is "how can a patient make choices themselves" and health advocacy is closer to "how can we make patient's do what is good for them". Of course, there is an overlap in the middle in terms of "do patients adequately understand their options and health implications". Talpedia (talk) 10:10, 14 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Health advocacy 

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