Palliative care in Argentina: perspectives from a country in crisis.
J Pain Palliat Care Pharmacother
; 17(3-4): 23-43, 2003.
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| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-15022949
Argentina is a large South American country with a high prevalence of chronic disease-related mortality and a clear need for implementation of palliative care. Primary concerns related to palliative care are cultural, socio-economic and educational. Increasing poverty, patients and families receiving inadequate information about their diagnosis or prognosis, drug availability and costs, and insufficient knowledge by health care providers are obstacles to palliative care. Palliative care programs are developing throughout the country and methods by which they are meeting their needs are described. Several Argentinean palliative care initiatives are described and the role of the Pallium Latinomérica training program is discussed.
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01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Dor
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Cuidados Paliativos
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Doença Crônica
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Política de Saúde
/
Analgésicos Opioides
Tipo de estudo:
Prognostic_studies
/
Risk_factors_studies
Aspecto:
Equity_inequality
Limite:
Humans
País/Região como assunto:
America do sul
/
Argentina
Idioma:
En
Revista:
J Pain Palliat Care Pharmacother
Assunto da revista:
NEUROLOGIA
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PSICOFISIOLOGIA
/
TERAPIA POR MEDICAMENTOS
Ano de publicação:
2003
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Argentina
País de publicação:
Reino Unido