Advancing palliative care research in Sub-Saharan Africa: From the Venice declaration, to Nairobi and beyond

Palliative Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 885-887

  Powell, R A ^a   Downing, J ^a   Radbruch, L ^b   Mwangi Powell, F N ^a   Harding, R ^c  

^a AFRICAN PALLIATIVE CARE ASSOCIATION   (Uganda)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EDITORIAL; FUNDING; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; KENYA; LANGUAGE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; COMPREHENSION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PALLIATIVE CARE; RESEARCH;

EID: 57149129978     PISSN: 02692163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0269216308098094     Document Type: Editorial

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