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Advocacy Journal Club
Informing Advocacy Through Medical Literature
In 1848, Dr. Rudolf Virchow wrote a report citing social conditions as the source of typhus in Prussia. The report angered public officials, but helped bring about change — as did Dr. John Snow’s famous treatise in 1854 that traced a cholera outbreak to a single water pump in London. The history of health advocacy has been to document public health issues through data-driven, action-oriented publication.
The monthly Advocacy Journal Club covers a health advocacy article from a peer-reviewed journal at the start of the Jefferson outpatient rotation.
Articles typically address issues related to advocacy and public policy around a major child health topic, and the social determinants of health. Participants critically review the article and discuss related health policies and individual and community advocacy action steps.
"You and I may not live to see the day... but the time will arrive when great outbreaks of cholera will be things of the past: and it is the knowledge of the way in which the disease is propagated which will cause them to disappear."
Dr. John Snow to Rev. Henry Whitehead
1854
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