aDepartment of Palliative Medicine, RWTH University Aachen, Aachen, Germany bLatin American Association for Palliative Care, Buenos Aires, Argentina cPrograma ATLANTES, Institute for Culture and Society, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain dInternational Association for Hospice and Palliative Care, Houston, Texas, USA.
Curr Opin Support Palliat Care. 2013 Dec;7(4):411-6. doi: 10.1097/SPC.0000000000000008.
Several studies have been published reporting the status of palliative care in different countries of Latin America, but no studies have been published on the status of the discipline across the whole region. This article provides a summary of the current situation as reported in the Atlas of Palliative Care recently completed by the Latin American Association for Palliative Care. The aim of this project was to collect information on the degree of palliative care development, help create a network, and influence the progress of palliative care across Latin America.
The Atlas provides an overview of the status of palliative care in Latin America according to the World Health Organization public health strategy for palliative care: policies, drug availability, education, and implementation of services. The results indicate that there is significant variation among countries in the region and that strategies to support and develop palliative care require tailored approaches to meet the needs of each.
The information in this review gives a broad notion of the current status of palliative care in Latin America. The Atlas is expected to help the progress of palliative care and serve as a driver of the field in Latin America and other regions.
已有多项研究报告了拉丁美洲不同国家的姑息治疗现状，但尚未有研究全面报告该地区的学科现状。本文概述了最近由拉丁美洲姑息治疗协会完成的姑息治疗地图集报告的现状。该项目的目的是收集姑息治疗发展程度的信息，帮助建立网络，并影响拉丁美洲姑息治疗的进展。
该地图集根据世界卫生组织姑息治疗公共卫生战略概述了拉丁美洲姑息治疗的现状：政策、药物可及性、教育和服务的实施。结果表明，该地区各国之间存在显著差异，支持和发展姑息治疗的策略需要采取有针对性的方法来满足每个国家的需求。
本文综述提供了拉丁美洲姑息治疗现状的广泛概念。预计该地图集将有助于姑息治疗的进展，并成为拉丁美洲及其他地区该领域的推动力量。
