title: New Zealand's National Health and Disability Advocacy Service: a successful model of advocacy.
abstract: This paper, in exploring both the debate and practice of advocacy, uses the National Health and Disability Advocacy Service in New Zealand to describe a successful model of advocacy that is based on the concept of empowerment practiced in an independent environment and strengthened by an enforceable framework of consumer rights.
authors: J.Drage@xtra.co.nz
authors: Jean
authors: J
authors: Drage
mesh_terms: D006233:Persons with Disabilities; D006801:Humans; D009313:National Health Programs; D009520:New Zealand; D010344:Patient Advocacy; D011209:Power, Psychological