Talk:Patient advocacy

October 2017 partial merge proposal

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 ‹blame
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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)

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)

Health advocacy

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)

How exactly does one get a patient advocacy when an unexpected situation happens? Instead of being rushed into surgery because the doctors are telling me my baby will die if I don't. Where does that ease of mind come into play? Not always is this an easy decision. Actually, this was one of the hardest decision's I ever had to make, but my daughter is alive, and that is all that matters.

https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/ocr/privacy/hipaa/understanding/consumers/consumer_ffg.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_advocacy

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Request for review of Draft:Solace Health

Hi! I am requesting assistance from an independent Wikipedia editor to review the Draft:Solace_Health about a patient advocacy platform mentioned in this article under Organizations.

Solace has a pending draft that needs to be reviewed and moved to mainspace. As a paid COI editor, I am ethically not permitted to move the article. I have taken care to cite the article with secondary sources including The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and Axios, as well as reputable medical trade press mentions including Fierce Healthcare and MedCity News.

Thank you in advance for your assistance with building the knowledge ecosystem around patient advocacy.

Chaud321 (talk) 16:59, 1 July 2026 (UTC)