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Our professional commitment is to develop health strategies
in order to help people become better consumers of both conventional
and alternative medicine and to make these strategies available
to everyone through Internet-based technology. This affords
us the unprecedented opportunity not only to encourage responsible
and effective consumerism of health practices but also to narrow
the gap between prosperity and poverty and wellness and illness.
There is also an urgent need for straightforward information
that reduces the complexities of health care into the simplest
possible terms so people have greater access to all forms of
health care and can maximize the benefits of treatments.
We need to be more educated and involved in the health care
process for several reasons: the increasing limitations and
frustrations of managed care, the high costs of health care,
the popularity of alternative medicine which creates the potential
for harm and misuse, an interest in anti-aging, the prevalence
of chronic illness, and environmental and technological threats
to health along with extended life expectancy. By developing
the skills necessary to survive such a complex environment,
we can demystify health care and, hopefully, live better lives.
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Health-advocate.com contributors include several properly
credentialed and experienced public health professionals and
educators dedicated to the promotion of an activist, educated
health consumer. The founder and administrator of the service,
Colleen C. Badell, Ph.D., graduated from Indiana University,
Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, and holds graduate degrees
in Counseling Psychology and Health Education from the University
of San Francisco and University of New Mexico with specializations
in health psychology, consumer advocacy, and health care reform.
Dubbed by colleagues as the “Ralph Nader of health care,”
Dr. Badell has been an educator and advocate for alternative
and conventional medicine for thirty years, helping people safely
navigate both systems of medicine. |
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