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Best practices in developing a national palliative care policy in resource limited settings: lessons from five African countries

Given the high unmet need for palliative care in Africa and other resource limited settings, it is important that countries embrace the public health approach to increasing access through its integration within existing healthcare systems. To give this approach a strong foundation that would ensure...

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Autores principales: Luyirika, Emmanuel BK, Namisango, Eve, Garanganga, Eunice, Monjane, Lidia, Ginindza, Ntombi, Madonsela, Gugulethu, Kiyange, Fatia
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cancer Intelligence 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4970625/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27563347
http://dx.doi.org/10.3332/ecancer.2016.652
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author Luyirika, Emmanuel BK
Namisango, Eve
Garanganga, Eunice
Monjane, Lidia
Ginindza, Ntombi
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Kiyange, Fatia
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Namisango, Eve
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description Given the high unmet need for palliative care in Africa and other resource limited settings, it is important that countries embrace the public health approach to increasing access through its integration within existing healthcare systems. To give this approach a strong foundation that would ensure sustainability, the World Health Organisation urges member states to ensure that policy environments are suitable for this intervention. The development, strengthening, and implementation of national palliative care policies is a priority. Given the lack of a critical mass of palliative care professionals in the region and deficiency in documenting and sharing best practices as part of information critical for regional development, policy development becomes a complex process. This article shares experiences with regard to best practices when advocating the national palliative care policies. It also tells about policy development process, the important considerations, and cites examples of policy content outlines in Africa.
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spelling pubmed-49706252016-08-25 Best practices in developing a national palliative care policy in resource limited settings: lessons from five African countries Luyirika, Emmanuel BK Namisango, Eve Garanganga, Eunice Monjane, Lidia Ginindza, Ntombi Madonsela, Gugulethu Kiyange, Fatia Ecancermedicalscience Review Given the high unmet need for palliative care in Africa and other resource limited settings, it is important that countries embrace the public health approach to increasing access through its integration within existing healthcare systems. To give this approach a strong foundation that would ensure sustainability, the World Health Organisation urges member states to ensure that policy environments are suitable for this intervention. The development, strengthening, and implementation of national palliative care policies is a priority. Given the lack of a critical mass of palliative care professionals in the region and deficiency in documenting and sharing best practices as part of information critical for regional development, policy development becomes a complex process. This article shares experiences with regard to best practices when advocating the national palliative care policies. It also tells about policy development process, the important considerations, and cites examples of policy content outlines in Africa. Cancer Intelligence 2016-07-07 /pmc/articles/PMC4970625/ /pubmed/27563347 http://dx.doi.org/10.3332/ecancer.2016.652 Text en © the authors; licensee ecancermedicalscience. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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