The Global Institute of Psychosocial, Palliative and End-of-Life Care (GIPPEC), the Institute of Health Policy, Kings College London, the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, and the Division of Palliative Medicine, University of Toronto; the European Palliative Care Research Centre, and the Princess Margaret Global Cancer Program are hosting Palliative Care, Culture and the Clinic.
This multi-disciplinary symposium will address the influence of culture and biomedicine on universal access to palliative care over three themes:
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Models of integration and collaboration that have fostered or hindered universal access
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Successes and challenges of integration
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Implicit and explicit biases in resource allocation, clinical training and research
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Balance of attention to the disease, the symptoms, the person, and the social context
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Status and recent shifts across cultures in stigma and attitudes to dying and death and to palliative care
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Societal
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Medical
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Health systems and government
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The impact of the economic divide in both high and low income countries on access at the level of:
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Health policy
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Political and economic factors
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Decision-making and resource allocation
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Solutions and new opportunities for collaboration across sectors in research, education, health policy, resource allocation, and clinical care to enhance universal access to high quality palliative
More information:
https://events.myconferencesuite.com/Palliative_Care_Culture_and_the_Clinic_Symposium/reg/landing
Program:
2021FINAL AGENDA_Palliative Care Culture and the Clinic Programme Autosaved (1.31 MB) "pdf"