Health Advocacy: What pharmacists can do towards the realization of Universal Healthcare Coverage (UHC)

Health advocacy refers to the activities directed towards ensuring individuals and communities have access to healthcare that they need at any particular time. It involves creating awareness of the deficiencies, mobilizing resources towards addressing them, addressing inequities, and influencing policies as well as creating systems for sustained quality access (US National Library of Medicine, 2017). Advocacy helps raise familiarity with an issue which calls for individual and social actions in order to gain political commitment, policy support, social acceptance and structural support for a particular intervention e.g. a public health initiative such as improving access to sexual and reproductive health services (European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, 2009).

Author(s): Odhiambo David

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