De Simone Gustavo G
Hospital Bonorino Udaondo, Bonpland 2287 (1425) Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
J Pain Palliat Care Pharmacother. 2003;17(3-4):23-43.
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.
阿根廷是一个南美洲大国，慢性病相关死亡率很高，显然需要实施姑息治疗。与姑息治疗相关的主要问题是文化、社会经济和教育方面的。贫困加剧、患者及其家庭对诊断或预后信息了解不足、药品供应和成本以及医疗保健提供者知识不足等都是姑息治疗的障碍。姑息治疗项目正在全国各地开展，并介绍了它们满足需求的方法。文中描述了阿根廷的几项姑息治疗举措，并讨论了拉丁美洲姑息治疗培训项目的作用。
