International Perspectives on Public Health and Palliative Care (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Sallnow, Libby; Kellehear, Allan; Kumar, Suresh

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Public health approaches to palliative care have been growing in policy importance and practice acceptance. This innovative volume explores the major concepts, practice examples, and practice guidelines for this new approach.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136631993
• Artikelnr.: 38273668

Autorenporträt

Libby Sallnow is a palliative medicine registrar at St Joseph's Hospice, London and is the Research Associate at the WHO Collaborating Centre for Community Participation in Palliative Care and Long Term Care, Kerala. Suresh Kumar is currently the Director of the WHO Collaborating Center for Community Participation in Palliative Care and Long Term Care. Allan Kellehear is Professor, School of Health Administration, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He was formerly the Professor of Palliative Care at La Trobe University and was director of Australia's first policy and practice palliative care unit in a school of public health.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Public Health and Palliative Care: An Historical Overview
Chapter 2: "But we're already doing it!": Examining conceptual blurring
between health promotion and palliative care Chapter 3: Illness
trajectories and palliative care: implications for holistic service
provision Chapter 4: Public health and palliative care in Australia Chapter
5: Public Health and Palliative Care: A perspective from Africa Chapter 6:
Public health developments in palliative care services in the UK Chapter 7:
Public Health approach to Palliative Care - Neighbourhood Network in
Palliative Care Program in Kerala Chapter 8: St. Joseph's Hospice, London,
UK - a practice example Chapter 9: The Campaign to Build a
Dementia-Friendly Community Chapter 10: 'Let's talk about dying' -
dispelling myths towards the end of life Chapter 11: Discovering Options:
An Australian Initiative in the Care of the Dying Chapter 12: Public Health
Approaches to End of Life in Ecuador Appendix 1: National Palliative Care
Policy, Kerala Appendix 2: Charter for the normalization of death, dying
and loss Appendix 3: Practice Guidelines for Health Promoting Palliative
Care, La Trobe University Appendix 4: Neighbourhood Network in Palliative
Care Practice Guidelines NNPC, Kerala Appendix 5: NHS Lothian's integrated
model of Palliative and End of Life care Appendix 6: HOME Hospice
questionnaire