Objective: to map the available evidence on the main topics investigated in palliative care in
primary health care. Method: scoping review type study carried out in five databases,
including original articles, based on the descriptors palliative care, palliative care at the end
of life, terminal care, terminal state, primary health care and their respective acronyms and
synonyms, totaling 18 publications. The extraction of data from primary studies was
performed using an instrument produced by the authors and which allowed the construction …

The ageing population has increased the incidence of chronic health conditions, requiring
the inclusion of different levels of palliative care (PC) in different parts of the health system,
including the Primary Health Care (PHC). This new reality might interfere with the ethical
issues of PHC. This research aimed to identify, from the point of view of health professionals,
the ethical problems which arise from the palliative care in PHC. We carried out a systematic
review in PubMed, EMBASE, LILACS, CINAHL, using the descriptors 'ethics','bioethic's,' …