Public health advocacy and chiropractic: a guide to helping your community reach its health objectives
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Michael A. Perko, Associate Professor (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: Objective: Doctors of chiropractic (DCs) provide health educational and promotion efforts in the communities they serve by counseling patients at the individual level. This article outlines a method and model in which DCs can effectively serve as public health advocates within their community.
Discussion: The social ecological model of health education and health promotion serves as an excellent template for taking into account every antecedent to disease within a community and how to prevent it through health promotion. A step-by-step guide to getting the DC involved in the community can be centered on this model, with the DC serving as a health advocate for his or her community. Resources are provided to assist in this process.
Conclusion: The DC can and should engage his or her community in areas that are conducive to health through involvement and advocacy roles where these are suitable. A community's health can be enhanced with greater health care provider involvement, and DCs need to consider themselves a part of this process.
Public health advocacy and chiropractic: a guide to helping your community reach its health objectives
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- Publication
- Public Health Advocacy and Chiropractic: A Guide to Helping your Community Reach its Health Objectives. Evans, M. W., Perko, M. A., & Williams, R. M. (2008). Journal of Chiropractic Medicine.
- Language: English
- Date: 2008
- Keywords
- Chiropractic, Public health, Community health planning