1. Provision of Palliative Care Services for Cancer Patients in the Community in Africa
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John Weru and Esther W. Nafula
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Palliative care ,business.industry ,Family medicine ,parasitic diseases ,Medicine ,Cancer ,Mainstream ,business ,medicine.disease ,World health ,Cause of death - Abstract
World Health Organization (WHO) (The protocol for the WHO study on the effectiveness of community-based programmes for NCD prevention and control (No. NMH/NPH/NCP/03.09). World Health Organization, Geneva, 2003) predicts that by 2030, non-communicable diseases will be the leading cause of death in Sub-Saharan Africa. In 2012, there were 645,000 new cancer cases and 456,000 cancer-related deaths in Africa. The need for palliative care in the region is expected to keep increasing. Palliative care is a relatively new field in Africa, and only about 5% of patients who need it can access it. Governments are investing more in cure and prevention, and very few have integrated palliative care into mainstream policies or created stand-alone policies.
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- 2020
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