Public health advocacy and chiropractic: a guide to helping your community reach its health objectives.
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.


CONCLUSIONS
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.


CONCLUSIONS
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.
Evans
Marion W
MW
Director, Health Promotion Degree Programs, Cleveland Chiropractic College, Kansas City, MO 64131.
Williams
Ronald D
RD
Perko
Michael
M
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