Background: Communities play an increasingly significant role in their own health and social
care, and evidence demonstrates the positive impact of this work on a range of health …

Background: Public health palliative care interventions are increasingly implemented, with
growing recognition of the importance of building evidence to support their utility in end-of …

Death literacy is defined as a set of knowledge and skills that make it possible to gain
access to understand and act upon end-of-life and death care options. People, and …

In this article we discuss the 'bringing our dying home'research project which contributes to
an understanding of caring at end of life (EOL) as potentially increasing social networks and …

Access to palliative care for marginalized communities is frequently problematized as a
major challenge facing palliative care services. The traditional response of asking what …

The care of a person living at home near the end of their life is predominantly provided by
family carers with the support of health services such as palliative care. In addition, informal …

Aims and objectives The public health approach to end-of-life care has gained recognition
over the past decade regarding its contribution to palliative care services. Terms, such as …

Background: Public health and palliative care are both broad disciplines with blurred
boundaries. There is growing support for an alignment of palliative care to public health …

Abstract The majority of people (70–80%) when asked where they would prefer to die say
they want to die in the comfort and intimacy of their own homes (Gomes et al., 2013; …

Introduction Public health palliative care is a term that can be used to encompass a variety of
approaches that involve working with communities to improve people's experience of death …