Advocacy in neurology / edited by Wolfgang Grisold, Walter Struhal, Karl Landsteiner, Thomas Grisold.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Section 1 What is Advocacy -- Section 2 Why is Advocacy needed? -- Section 3 What tools can be used for advocacy? -- Section 4 Advocacy in different neurological diseases

Advocacy is a broad term that covers activities aimed at increasing attention, awareness, information, nursing, treatment, and support to improve the outcome of patients. These actions can be focused directly towards patients or indirectly via third parties. Although advocacy is present in all medical specialties, neurology in particular finds itself in need of strong advocacy tools as the diagnosis, treatment, long-term care and associated resource, and social issues have become increasingly complex. While some physicians implicitly or explicitly act as advocates, there is a lack of holistic research in order to clarify the meaning of advocacy along with concrete methods and strategies. This text provides an integrated approach to the concept of advocacy in neurology