Our purpose is to categorize palliative care development, country by country, throughout the
world, showing changes over time. We adopt a multi-method approach. Development is
categorized using a six-part typology: Group 1 (no known hospice-palliative care activity)
and Group 2 (capacity-building activity) are the same as developed during a previous study
(2006), but Groups 3 and 4 have been subdivided to produce two additional levels of
categorization: 3a) Isolated palliative care provision, 3b) Generalized palliative care …