Palliative care is the active holistic care of individuals across all ages with serious health-related suffering due to severe illness, and especially of those near the end of life. It aims to improve the quality of life of patients, their families and their caregivers. IAHPC provides educational resources to our members to help them support their patients who are suffering. Few such resources exist to support palliative care advocacy or clinical care to help alleviate this suffering.
More than 70% of people in the world who need palliative care cannot access it. Faith based & charitable organizations on shoestring budgets are the main providers. Advocacy at all levels is essential to raise consciousness of benefits for patients and health systems. IAHPC is filling the current knowledge abyss in a public policy & clinical care that limits service delivery at all levels of healthcare systems. Join our global movement today!
The IAHPC implements and conducts symptom management and advocacy courses, develops and designs resources and tools that enable and help providers. Effective clinical interventions to relieve suffering and advocacy initiatives activates a loop that includes health professionals and policy makers.
The courses provide education to over 900 IAHPC members in 106 countries. Training on basic clinical care to manage symptoms to relieve most of the suffering has the potential to reduce serious health related suffering for thousands of patients around the world.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
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