Palliative care in Africa and the Caribbean

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 027-030

  Spence, Dingle ^a,b   Merriman, Anne ^c   Binagwaho, Agnes ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^b Hope Institute   (Jamaica)

^c Hospice Africa Uganda   (Uganda)

^d Rwanda National HIV AIDS Control Commission National AIDS Commission   (Rwanda)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CANCER PAIN; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EDUCATION PROGRAM; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT EDUCATION; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SEXUAL EDUCATION; TERMINAL DISEASE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; AFRICA; ARTICLE; CENTRAL AMERICA; COST OF ILLNESS; MENTAL STRESS; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NEOPLASM; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL JUSTICE; TERMINAL CARE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AFRICA; CARIBBEAN REGION; COST OF ILLNESS; HUMANS; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SOCIAL JUSTICE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TERMINAL CARE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 15744404022     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0010005     Document Type: Review

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