International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care, Houston, Texas.
International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care, Houston, Texas; Department of Palliative Medicine, University Hospital Bonn, Germany; The Malteser Hospital, Bonn, Germany.
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The International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care (IAHPC) is a membership-based organization dedicated to the development and improvement of hospice and palliative care worldwide. The mission of IAHPC is to improve the quality of life of adults and children with life-threatening conditions and their families. The vision of IAHPC is universal access to high-quality palliative care, integrated into all levels of health care systems in a continuum of care with disease prevention, early diagnosis, and treatment, to assure that any patient's or family caregiver's suffering is relieved to the greatest extent possible. IAHPC focuses on the advancement of four areas of palliative care: education, access to medicines, health policies, and service implementation. IAHPC works on three levels: at the grass roots, developing resources, and educational strategies that enable health workers to provide cost-effective palliative care; at the national level, working with government representatives to improve national policies to ensure adequate care and access to medicines; and at the international level, advocating with the UN organizations to ensure that access to palliative care and to essential medicines for palliative care and pain treatment is stipulated and incorporated as an obligation of member states.
国际安宁缓和医疗协会（IAHPC）是一个以会员为基础的组织，致力于全球安宁缓和医疗的发展和完善。IAHPC 的使命是提高患有危及生命疾病的成人和儿童及其家属的生活质量。IAHPC 的愿景是普及高质量的缓和医疗，将其整合到医疗保健系统的各个层面，形成一个连续的护理模式，包括疾病预防、早期诊断和治疗，以确保最大限度地减轻任何患者或家庭照顾者的痛苦。IAHPC 专注于缓和医疗的四个领域的发展：教育、药物获取、卫生政策和服务实施。IAHPC 在三个层面上开展工作：在基层，开发资源和教育策略，使卫生工作者能够提供具有成本效益的缓和医疗；在国家层面，与政府代表合作，改善国家政策，以确保提供适当的护理和药物获取；在国际层面，倡导联合国组织确保获得缓和医疗以及缓和医疗和疼痛治疗所需的基本药物，并将其规定为成员国的义务。
