Putting palliative care on the global health agenda
Lancet Oncol
.
2015 Feb;16(2):131-3.
doi: 10.1016/S1470-2045(15)70002-1.
Authors
Richard A Powell
1
,
Faith N Mwangi-Powell
2
,
Lukas Radbruch
3
,
Gavin Yamey
4
,
Eric L Krakauer
5
,
Dingle Spence
6
,
Zipporah Ali
7
,
Sharon Baxter
8
,
Liliana De Lima
9
,
Ali Xhixha
10
,
M R Rajagopal
11
,
Felicia Knaul
12
Affiliations
1
PO Box 459-00621, Village Market, Nairobi, Kenya. Electronic address:
[email protected]
.
2
University Research Company, Nairobi, Kenya.
3
Department of Palliative Medicine, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
4
Evidence to Policy Initiative, Global Health Group, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.
5
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Partners In Health, Boston, MA, USA.
6
Hope Institute Hospital, Kingston, Jamaica.
7
Kenya Hospices and Palliative Care Association, Nairobi, Kenya.
8
Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association, Ottawa, Canada.
9
International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care, Houston, TX, USA.
10
Ryder Albania Association, Tirana, Albania.
11
WHO Collaborating Centre for Training and Policy on Access to Pain Relief, Trivandrum, Kerala, India.
12
Harvard Global Equity Initiative, Department of Global Health & Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
PMID:
25638676
DOI:
10.1016/S1470-2045(15)70002-1
No abstract available
MeSH terms
Global Health / standards*
Health Policy
Health Services Accessibility
Humans
Palliative Care / standards*
Patient Safety / standards
Patient-Centered Care / standards*
Quality of Health Care / standards*