Category Archives: public health palliative care

Let’s create Compassionate Communities for the future!

Posted on May 25, 2022 by pallcare

In our Palliative Care and Public Health blog series, contributors explore the pressing issue about how palliative care could become part of public health as well as a health care priority. Marie-Charlotte Bouësseau, Elizabeth Gwyther & Allan Kellehear reflect on … Continue reading →

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Compassionate communities: a global expansion.

Posted on March 30, 2022 by pallcare

WE’RE DELIGHTED TO PRESENT THIS MONTH’S ‘EDITOR’S CHOICE’ FROM PALLIATIVE MEDICINE, THE OFFICIAL RESEARCH JOURNAL OF THE EAPC. Each month, Professor Catherine Walshe, Editor-in-Chief of Palliative Medicine, chooses an article that readers may find particularly interesting or useful and invites … Continue reading →

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Do Compassionate Cities provide a path to a ‘realistic utopia’?

Posted on March 23, 2022 by pallcare

This blog is the second in our Palliative Care and Public Health Series, where contributors explore how palliative care could become part of public health and a health care priority. Dr. John Rosenberg, President of Public Health Palliative Care International, … Continue reading →

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What happens when palliative care is neglected as a public health priority?

Posted on January 26, 2022 by pallcare

New series: Palliative Care and Public Health – where contributors will explore how we can make sure that palliative care becomes part of public health and a health care priority. To launch the series, our guest writer Luc Deliens, Professor … Continue reading →

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What matters most to patients and families at end of life: Findings from Quality of Death and Dying Index 2021

Posted on January 24, 2022 by pallcare

The Lien Centre for Palliative Care at Duke-NUS Medical School, commissioned by the Lien Foundation, has produced the Cross Country Comparison of Expert Assessments of the Quality of Death and Dying Index 2021. Professor Eric Finkelstein, Executive Director of Lien … Continue reading →

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