What is the value of palliative care provision in low-resource settings?
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What is the value of palliative care provision in low-resource settings?
Correspondence to Dr R Eleanor Anderson; [email protected] Palliative care is the active improvement in quality of life and relief of suffering for patients with incurable disease. Despite being recognised as a human right by the WHO, the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the International Covenant for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 4 there are s...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ Global Health
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2059-7908
DOI: 10.1136/bmjgh-2016-000139