A National Palliative Care Strategy for Canada

Paediatric palliative care in Canada: A national survey of paediatricians.

home-based palliative care: a strategy for keeping intensive care unit beds vacant

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Canada needs a national suicide prevention strategy.

Heartsick over the loss of more than 800 Inuit who have seen no way through their pain except to end their own lives,1 Inuit Tapiirit Kanatami (ITK), the national Inuit political association, recently released an evidence-based suicide prevention strategy.2 The culturally specific strategy is intended to address the glaring void that has been left by Canada’s lack of a national suicide preventi...

The Lack of Systematic Training for Health Care Providers, A Challenge for Providing Pediatric Palliative Home Care: A Comparative Study

Background: The growing prevalence of chronic diseases in children has increased their need for palliative care. We aimed to compare pediatric palliative care and home care training in Iran and in the selected countries. Materials and Methods: This comparative study was conducted based on the classifications of palliative care for children and using databases such as Scopus, Science Direct, Ovi...

The need for an effective palliative care strategy in Pakistan.

The development of palliative care around the world, or lack thereof, is an important public health problem. We are pleased that the Journal of Public Health Policy has provided a public health lens to the need for palliative care in developing countries in a Special Section of the Journal (January 2007, Number 1, Volume 28). The issue presented a range of topics from more generic issues in pal...