A Public Health Perspective on End of Life Care Download

Author: Joachim Cohen
Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0199599408
Category: Medical

A Public Health Perspective on End of Life Care

Worldwide, more than 50 million people die each year and it is estimated on the basis of the conditions leading to death that up to 60% of them could benefit from some form of palliative care. Download A Public Health Perspective on End of Life Care medical books for free.
It is a public health challenge to ensure that these people can access good palliative or end-of-life care. Pursuing good population health essentially also implies striving for a 'good enough death' and a good quality of care at the end of life. Safeguarding a good quality of the end of life for patient populations for whom it is appropriate requires a public health approach.

In most developed countries ageing populations that increasingly die from chronic diseases after a prolonged -often degenerative- dying trajectory make up the public health Get A Public Health Perspective on End of Life Care our bestseller medical books.

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In most developed countries ageing populations that increasingly die from chronic diseases after a prolonged -often degenerative- dying trajectory make up the public health

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