Objective: The right to health includes a right of access to good quality palliative care, but
inequalities persist. Raising awareness is a key plank of the public health approach to …

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 …

Background A compassionate community approach to palliative care provides important
rationale for building community-based hospice volunteer capacity. In this project, we piloted …

Background Palliative care is recognised as a public health issue with the need for earlier
integration in the wider healthcare system. However, research indicates that it continues to …

Peer support for people with advanced cancer: a systematical... : Current Opinion in
Supportive and Palliative Care Peer support for people with advanced cancer: a …

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

Background Clinical care alone at the end of life is unlikely to meet all needs. Volunteers are
a key resource, acceptable to patients, but there is no evidence on care outcomes. This …

Background and Method: There is an absence of research on the prevalence of
bereavement during early childhood and the relationship between childhood bereavement …

Case study research facilitates the in-depth, real-life exploration of complex phenomena
from multiple perspectives. It is a well-established approach to deal with the complexities …

Interest in the potential for public health and palliative care to work together is now widely
established. Based on a mapping review of existing literature, we describe for the first time …