In this lesson we examine the literary contributions of FranÃ§ois-Marie Arouet (better known as Voltaire), a prominent writer and thinker of the French Enlightenment. Voltaire (born FranÃ§ois-Marie Arouet) was a writer in France in the 1700s. At this time in Europe, popular thought was undergoing drastic changes.
Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, v27 n4 p391-399 Oct 2006. As experts on the nature and needs of young children, early childhood educators are in prime positions to advocate for the health and well-being of young children. Advocacy can take the form of personal, public, or private-sector endeavors. Personal advocacy is usually informal and involves educating others on an issue about early childhood education. Similarly, public advocacy involves educating policy makers, and private-sector advocacy is directed toward businesses.
(April 2009) Patient advocacy is an area of specialization in health care concerned with advocacy for patients, survivors, and carers. The patient advocate may be an individual or an organization, often, though not always, concerned with one specific group of disorders. The terms patient advocate and patient advocacy can refer both to individual advocates providing services that organizations also provide, and to organizations whose functions extend to individual patients. Some patient advocates work for the institutions that are directly responsible for the patient's care.