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A Public Health Perspective on End of Life Care

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A Public Health Perspective on End of Life Care

Author:   Joachim Cohen ,  Luc Deliens
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
ISBN:  

9780199599400


Pages:   272
Publication Date:   19 January 2012
Format:   Paperback
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Worldwide, more than 50 million people die each year and it is estimated on the basis of the conditions leading to death that up to 60% of them could benefit from some form of palliative care. It is a public health challenge to ensure that these people can access good palliative or end-of-life care. Pursuing good population health essentially also implies striving for a 'good enough death' and a good quality of care at the end of life. Safeguarding a good quality of the end of life for patient populations for whom it is appropriate requires a public health approach. In most developed countries ageing populations that increasingly die from chronic diseases after a prolonged -often degenerative- dying trajectory make up the public health challenges for palliative care. The very large baby boom generation will soon reach old age and can be expected to pose strong demands regarding the circumstances and care at their end of life. Only by applying a public health approach to palliative care (instead of individual patient perspectives), can societies successfully help to organize and plan end-of-life care in accordance with these aspirations. A Public Health Perspective on End of Life Care presents a synthesis and overview of relevant research and empirical data on the end of life that can bear a basis for a more systematic 'public health of the end of life'. The book focuses on population health, rather than clinical interventions or other aspects of individual health, and discusses studies using different methodologies (not only epidemiological research). The focus is on the quality of the end-of-life of populations, in particular from social sciences, environmental sciences, and humanities perspectives.

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Author:   Joachim Cohen ,  Luc Deliens
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
ISBN:  

9780199599400


ISBN 10:   0199599408
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   19 January 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Not yet available   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Preface; 1. Economic Approaches to the Environment; 2. The Fundamental Flaw; 3. How Workers are Short Changed by Externalities; 4. Critiques of Consumerism and the Consumption Treadmill; 5. Measuring the Cost of the Fundamental Flaw; 6. The Cumulative Effect and International Differences; 7. Policies to Tackle the Fundamental Flaw; 8. Intuitive Reasoning versus Deliberative Thought References Index.

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