But the link found between fibro patients and RLS is intriguing. Fibromyalgia and restless legs syndrome share certain features: * Women are more likely to suffer from fibromyalgia and RLS. * There appears to be a genetic component because these conditions run in families.
Donaldson and Shields (2009) differentiated policy or class advocacy fromcase advocacy as the former ârefers to efforts to change social systems to beneï¬t a population ofpeople, as opposed to case advocacy, which refers to helping individual clients access systems toreceive beneï¬tsâ (p. 83).
This issue of the Journal focuses on public health advocacy. According to dictionary definitions, âto advocateâ means to espouse a cause by argument, to plead in favor of, to recommend publicly. The business of improving population health has always been linked to action. Buried in seemingly dry public health statistics is the evidence of preventable illness and death.