TDS - Oxford Textbook of Public Health Palliative Care

Oxford Textbook of Public Health Palliative Care

1st Ed.

Julian Abel; Allan Kellehear

ISBN-13: 978-0-19-886299-4

eISBN-13: 978-0-19-260799-7

Public Health, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Social Work

Description

Death, dying, loss, and caregiving are not just medical issues, but societal ones.

Palliative care has become increasingly professionalized, focused around symptom science. With this emphasis on minimizing the harms of physical, psychological, and spiritual stress, there has been a loss of how cultures and communities look after their dying, with the wider social experience of death often sidelined in the professionalization and medicalization of care. However, the people we know and love in the places we know, and love make up what matters most for those undergoing the experiences of death, loss, and caregiving.

Over the last 25 years the theory, practice, research evidence base, and clinical applications have developed, generating widespread adoption of the principles of public health approaches to palliative care. The essential principles of prevention, harm reduction, early intervention, and health and wellbeing promotion can be applied to the universal experience of end of life, irrespective of disease or diagnosis. Compassionate communities have become a routine part of the strategy and service development in palliative care, both within the UK and internationally.

The Oxford Textbook of Public Health Palliative Care provides a reframing of palliative care, bringing together the full scope of theory, practice, and evidence into one volume. Written by international leaders in the field, it provides the first truly comprehensive and authoritative textbook on the subject that will help to further inform developments in this growing specialty.

Doody's Reviews

Score: 88/100

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Quotes, Reviews or Testimonials

"This book is an important work that moves past the previous efforts of educating clinicians. It is forward-looking and speaks a great deal about how to build networks in the community. It shows a practical way to engage the community in their own care to prevent harm and seek hospice and palliative care earlier. It empowers the community and invites clinicians to engage with one another in ways that have not occurred widely in the past."

-- Rebecca Gagne-Henderson, PhD, MSN/FNP (Connecticut Hospice and Palliative Care Organization) Doody's Review

Audience

This book should be required reading for physicians in fellowship programs and nurses in palliative care to remind them of the purpose of their work. It should also be required reading for social workers, as they will inevitably work with the seriously ill and dying at some point in their career. Healthcare advocates, community workers, and hospice leaders will benefit from this book to gain a fresh perspective on developing innovative programs to reach the underserved. The authors are well versed in both palliative care and public health.