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Oxford Textbook of Public Health Palliative Care
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Title Details
1st Ed.
© Oxford University Press 2022. All rights reserved.
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
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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.
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