A separate and Identifiable field of health advocacy grew out of the patient rights movement of the 1970s. A separate and identifiable field of health advocacy grew out of patients’ rights movement of the 1970s. Clearly this was a period in which a “rights-based approach provided the foundation of much social action. It was clearly a period of a rights-based “approach that the basis of many social action. The initial” inspiration “for a” patient bill of rights “came from an advocacy organization, the National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO)  . The initial “inspiration” for a “patient bill of rights” came from an advocacy organization, the National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO) . In 1970, the NWRO list of patients’ rights was incorporated into the accreditation standards (JCAH) for hospitals, and, Interestingly, reprinted and distributed by the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective, authors of Our Bodies, Ourselves-as part of their women’s health education program. In 1970, the NWRO list of rights of patients included in the accreditation standards (JCAH ) for hospitals and, interestingly, reprinted and distributed by the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective, authors of Our Bodies, Ourselves – as part of their women’s health education . preamble to the The NWRO document became the basis for the Patient Bill of Rights adopted by the American Hospital Association in 1972. The preamble of the NWRO document became the basis for the patient Bill of Rights, adopted by the American Hospital Association in 1972.

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