Report
17 Oct 2018
This report, based on a consultative process and extensive literature reviews, provides information to improve access to essential medicines for mental disorders. It examines current barriers to access to psychotropic medicines and identifies key act...
Guide
16 Oct 2018
The World Health Assembly has resolved that palliative care is “an ethical responsibility of health systems” and that integration of palliative care into public health care systems is essential for the achievement of the Sustainable Development G...
Guide
11 Mar 2018
Responses to humanitarian emergencies and crises rarely provide palliative care, the discipline devoted to preventing and relieving suffering rather than to specific diseases, organs or technical skills.This guide, the fourth in a series of World Hea...
Article
13 Oct 2017
In agonising, crippling pain from lung cancer, Mr S came to the palliative care service in Calicut, Kerala, from an adjoining district a couple of hours away by bus. His body language revealed the depth of the suffering.We put Mr S on morphine, among...
Database
01 Mar 2017
National breast cancer control programs can be developed and implemented at all resource levels. Successful breast cancer programs offer women with breast cancer the best possible outcomes while effectively using available resources. Breast cancer ca...
Guide
16 Feb 2016
This is a practical manual on how to plan and implement palliative care services, integrated into existing health-care services, at national or subnational level. It has been designed primarily for health programme managers at national, provincial, o...
