National palliative care capacities around the world: Results from the World Health Organization Noncommunicable Disease Country Capacity Survey

Palliative Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 106-113

  Sharkey, Lee ^a   Loring, Belinda ^a   Cowan, Melanie ^a   Riley, Leanne ^a   Krakauer, Eric L ^a  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

community based distribution; global health; health care financing; health policy; noncommunicable disease; opioid analgesics; Palliative care; survey; World Health Organization

Indexed keywords

MORPHINE;

ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; COUNTRY ECONOMIC STATUS; FUNDING; GLOBAL HEALTH; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE FINANCING; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; NON COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; PAIN; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; QUESTIONNAIRE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ADULT; AGED; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NONCOMMUNICABLE DISEASES; PALLIATIVE CARE; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 85042101443     PISSN: 02692163     EISSN: 1477030X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0269216317716060     Document Type: Article

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