Palliative care is an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families
facing the problems associated with life-threatening illness through the prevention and relief …

Context Approximately 170,000 children in need of palliative care die every year in Europe
without access to it. This field remains an evolving specialty with unexplored development …

Background: Service provision is a key domain to assess national-level palliative care
development. Three editions of the European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC) Atlas of …

Background Monitoring and reporting palliative care development serves to identify
progress as well as remaining challenges for improvement. Aim To report on the updated …

Background: Public policy has been a foundational component of the World Health
Organization public health model for palliative care development since 1990. There is …

Context The national evaluation of an individual country is a tool used to improve the
universal provision of palliative care. The evaluation of a country's internal situation, by …

Abstract Context Organizations such as Asia Pacific Hospice Palliative Care Network
functions to promote quality palliative care development through training and education …

Background: Palliative care (PC) has been integrated to a limited extent in the South African
healthcare system. Contextual factors may be a pivotal influence in this integration …

Background: Despite a steady increase in palliative care (PC)-oriented research, authentic
engagement of stakeholders with findings needs to be more used. Objective: This study …

Background: The growing interest in tracking the global development of palliative care
provision is not matched by research on the development of palliative care services …