Technical Officer, Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health, World Health Organization Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, Cairo, Egypt.
Regional Advisor, Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health, World Health Organization Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, Cairo, Egypt.
East Mediterr Health J. 2022 Aug 31;27(8):553-554. doi: 10.26719/2022.28.8.553.
Palliative care is an approach that improves the quality of lives of patients and their families when facing problems associated with life-limiting illness, whether physical, psychosocial, or spiritual. It is acknowledged as a crucial part of integrated, people-centered health services and a human right. In 2014, WHO Member States endorsed the World Health Assembly Resolution 67.19 on Strengthening of Palliative Care as a component of comprehensive care throughout the life course, recognizing the importance of palliative care for the attainment of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and highlighting the opportunities to advance its integration into health systems through primary health care and home-based care services.
缓和医疗是一种方法,旨在改善患者及其家庭在面临与生命有限的疾病相关的问题时的生活质量,无论这些问题是身体、心理社会还是精神方面的。它被认为是综合的、以患者为中心的卫生服务的重要组成部分,也是一项人权。2014 年,世界卫生组织会员国通过了第 67.19 号世界卫生大会决议,强调缓和医疗作为贯穿生命全程全面照护的组成部分的重要性,认识到缓和医疗对实现全民健康覆盖的重要性,并强调了通过初级卫生保健和居家护理服务将其纳入卫生系统的机会。