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Development of Palliative Care: Past, Present, and Future

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Palliative care is an essential element of any health care system and a component of comprehensive and integrated care. Access to good palliative care is a basic human right. Palliative care has evolved since its modern foundation: the British Hospice model proposed building comprehensive models of care (responding to all dimensions of needs of patients). Palliative care has since spread into all the different settings of the health care systems.

Key evolution of palliative care provision includes:

  • The design and implementation of public health models as national or regional palliative care programs, and the policy proposed by the WHO in the World Health Assembly Resolution WHA67.19 in 2014: “Strengthening of palliative care as a component of comprehensive care throughout the life course.”

  • The shift from the institutional and late care of terminal cancer patients toward the timely community- and population-based perspective and links to chronic care models.

  • Initiatives of compassionate communities which aim at involving society to change attitudes toward end of life and propose integrated care at the community level.

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  1. World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Public Health Palliative Care Programs, Catalan Institute of Oncology, Barcelona, Spain

    Xavier Gómez-Batiste

  2. Chair of Palliative Care, University of Vic-Central University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain

    Xavier Gómez-Batiste, Jordi Amblàs & Xavier Costa

  3. World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Public Health Palliative Care Programs, Catalan Institute of Oncology, Chair of Palliative Care, University of Vic-Central University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain

    Cristina Lasmarías & Sara Ela

  4. Chronic Care Program, General Management of Health Planning, Government of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain

    Sebastià Santaeugènia

  5. Socio-Health Program, General Management of Health Planning, Government of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain

    Pau Sanchez & Ingrid Bullich

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Gómez-Batiste, X. et al. (2019). Development of Palliative Care: Past, Present, and Future. In: MacLeod, R., Van den Block, L. (eds) Textbook of Palliative Care. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31738-0_2-1

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