Palliative Care Report Reveals Urgency
Read this critical report from the World Health Organization, the World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH) and the Qatar Foundation, which calls for urgent, coordinated global action, noting “palliative care as part of comprehensive care for children and adults strengthens health systems and is an essential, effective and cost-efficient component of achieving universal health coverage.”
As a member of the WISH 2024 Forum on Palliative Care Advisory Group, Global Treehouse Executive Director Laura Dale-Harris contributed insights to this critical report.
“Palliative care as part of comprehensive care for children and adults strengthens health systems and is an essential, effective and cost-efficient component of achieving universal health coverage.
Unless urgent, evidence-based, co-ordinated action is taken, countries, health systems and communities will be unprepared to meet growing palliative care demand. Millions of people around the world will experience preventable suffering, and the wider health system delivery will be compromised.”