Banerjee Dwaipayan
Science, Technology, Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, E51-194A, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Ecancermedicalscience. 2022 Apr 28;16:ed120. doi: 10.3332/ecancer.2022.ed120. eCollection 2022.
Two palliative cancer-care models are being pioneered in India. The first has been developed by CanSupport, a cancer-care NGO based in Delhi. The CanSupport model of care emphasizes expertise and focuses on a relatively small number of patients. The second model is the Neighbourhood Network of Palliative Care, advanced by a group of physicians in the southern state of Kerala. The NNPC model emphasizes reach over expertise. It provides short-term training to community workers and civic-minded citizens, mobilizing numbers to treat a wider patient pool. This paper compares the strengths and drawbacks of both models in order to understand the generalizability of each for providing care to lower-income communities in lower- and middle-income countries.
印度正在开创两种姑息性癌症护理模式。第一种是由位于德里的癌症护理非政府组织CanSupport开发的。CanSupport护理模式强调专业知识,并专注于相对较少数量的患者。第二种模式是姑息治疗邻里网络,由南部喀拉拉邦的一群医生提出。NNPC模式强调覆盖面而非专业知识。它为社区工作者和有公民意识的公民提供短期培训,动员更多人来治疗更广泛的患者群体。本文比较了这两种模式的优缺点,以便了解每种模式在为低收入和中等收入国家的低收入社区提供护理方面的可推广性。