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2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Preliminary study for needs and practices of health advocacy act by physicians

Research Project

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Project/Area Number 21K21169
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Review Section 0908:Society medicine, nursing, and related fields
Research InstitutionKagoshima University

Principal Investigator

Mizuma Kimiko  鹿児島大学, 医歯学総合研究科, 特任助教 (20903884)

Project Period (FY) 2021-08-30 – 2024-03-31
Keywordsヘルス・アドボカシー / 健康格差 / 健康の社会的決定要因 / ミクロ・メゾ・マクロ / 社会的公正 / 社会変革 / 地域医療 / 基礎的調査
Outline of Final Research Achievements

Health advocacy is a social support practice that combines health measures for individuals and the improvement of the social environment related to health, in which health care providers work on behalf of and advocate for the voices of vulnerable people who live in the inequality of the social structure. In this study, we defined it into three levels of health advocacy: micro (toward individual), mezzo (toward community), and macro (toward society).
(1) A questionnaire survey of physicians in general revealed that the practice of mezzo and macro health advocacy is not yet widespread in Japan. (2) An interview survey of physicians as pioneering practitioners identified facilitators and barriers of the practice of mezzo health advocacy within communities in Japan.

Free Research Field

社会医学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

医師によるヘルス・アドボカシーの実践は、世界で拡大する健康格差を是正する社会変革のための実践として、その普及が目指される社会的要請である。本研究は、その実践の普及方策の検討に貢献する基礎的なエビデンスを明らかにし、今後の日本においては、特に、医師によるメゾ的ヘルス・アドボカシーの実践の普及が必要であることを示した。本研究の成果が、日本における、医療者によるヘルス・アドボカシー実践の普及推進のための学際的協力体制の礎となることが期待される。

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Published: 2025-01-30  

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