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World Health Organization

Improving access and appropriate use of medicines for mental disorders

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 actions for overcoming those barriers, organized as a function of four access components – selection, availability, affordability, appropriate use. Fur...

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World Health Organization

Integrating palliative care and symptom relief into primary health care. A WHO guide for planners, implementers and managers.

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 Goal on universal health coverage (WHA 67.19).&nbsp;Yet palliative care and symptom relief are rarely accessible in a number of countries. As a result,...

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World Health Organization

Integrating palliative care and symptom relief into the response to humanitarian emergencies and crises.

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 Health Organization (WHO) guidance documents on palliative care, describes the medical and moral necessity of integrating palliative care and pain relief...

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The Lancet

Alleviating the access abyss in palliative care and pain relief-an imperative of universal health coverage.

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 other things. A couple of hours later, he surveyed himself with disbelief. He had neither hoped nor conceived of the possibility that this kind of re...

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Union for International Cancer Control (UICC)

Breast Cancer Knowledge Summaries

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 care is most successful when prevention, early detection, diagnosis, treatment and palliation are integrated and synchronously developed.Breast Health G...

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World Health Organization

Planning and implementing palliative care services: a guide for programme managers.

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, or district level, whether they are responsible for noncommunicable diseases, infectious disease programmes, health services, or other technical areas...

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