072Oral Health Training Programme for Palliative Care

The Lack of Systematic Training for Health Care Providers, A Challenge for Providing Pediatric Palliative Home Care: A Comparative Study

Background: The growing prevalence of chronic diseases in children has increased their need for palliative care. We aimed to compare pediatric palliative care and home care training in Iran and in the selected countries. Materials and Methods: This comparative study was conducted based on the classifications of palliative care for children and using databases such as Scopus, Science Direct, Ovi...

Effects of spiritual care training for palliative care professionals.

Little is known about the effects of spiritual care training for professionals in palliative medicine. We therefore investigated prospectively the effects of such training over a six-month period. All 63 participants of the three and a half-day training were asked to fill out three questionnaires: before and after the training, as well as six months later. The questionnaires included demographi...

Emergency health training programme for Africa.

Palliative care: challenges for the health systems.

Reflections on the development of technologies in the health area have been accompanied by issues related to the finiteness and quality of life, because if technology can provide a cure for an illness, it can also prolong life, often without considering its quality. Thus, technologies for interventions in chronic-degenerative disease processes can transform the final phase of life into a long a...

Education and training in palliative care.

The growing demand for palliative care means that health professionals are expected to provide palliative care as a core part of their practice. Training in the practice of palliative care is a recent addition to undergraduate and postgraduate medical and other healthcare curricula, and several initiatives are under way to promote palliative care principles and practice in healthcare training. ...