Briefs & Fact Sheets
16 Apr 2025
This page provides a list of laws, regulations and national strategies which include palliative care or are specific to palliative care. These are available to download and can be used to guide countries in creating new national strategies and other policy documents.
Publication
07 Oct 2020
This second edition of the Global Atlas of Palliative Care updates the current situation of global palliative care development since the original version was published in 2014. A lot has happened in the intervening years including the passage of the World Health Assembly’s resolution on palliative care (WHA67.19). While progress is being made to meet the unmet need for palliative care globally t...
Report
07 May 2019
This report, published on the first-ever Universal Health Coverage Day, highlights the current situation in relation to hospice and palliative care and UHC and makes recommendations for working towards the greater inclusion of palliative care within Universal Health Coverage policies and schemes.
Report
08 Apr 2019
The aim of the report is to show how the Global Goal for Health and accompanying targets could support a focus on improving palliative care for people with life-threatening and life-limiting illness globally and to make recommendations for inclusion of palliative care within the Global Goal for Health.
