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).
Advocacy can include many activities that a person or organization undertakes including media campaigns, public speaking, commissioning and publishing research or conducting exit poll or the filing of an amicus brief.