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  • Inequities of palliative care availability and access to opioids in low- and middle-income countries

    Author(s)
    Coghlan, Rachel
    Shamieh, Omar
    Bloomer, Melissa J
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Bloomer, Melissa J.
    Year published
    2021
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    Abstract
    Fourteen years ago in a Palliative Medicine Editorial, Clemens et al. declared: ‘. . .the improvement of care for the critically ill and the dying remains a political challenge and an ethical imperative in low-income regions across the world, and it will need the untiring commitment of the world community to make it happen’.1 In 2021, palliative care provision for people living in low- and middle-income countries remains woefully inadequate; and the number of people who will die with unnecessary suffering is projected to increase significantly in coming decades. Gross inequities in access to opioids and palliative care ...
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    Fourteen years ago in a Palliative Medicine Editorial, Clemens et al. declared: ‘. . .the improvement of care for the critically ill and the dying remains a political challenge and an ethical imperative in low-income regions across the world, and it will need the untiring commitment of the world community to make it happen’.1 In 2021, palliative care provision for people living in low- and middle-income countries remains woefully inadequate; and the number of people who will die with unnecessary suffering is projected to increase significantly in coming decades. Gross inequities in access to opioids and palliative care availability exist throughout the world.
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    Journal Title
    Palliative Medicine
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1177/02692163211034083
    Subject
    Public health
    Health policy
    Palliative care
    Other health sciences
    Science & Technology
    Life Sciences & Biomedicine
    Health Care Sciences & Services
    Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
    Medicine, General & Internal
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/413036
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