The Berlin Declaration: A Collaborative Roadmap to Advance Global Hospice and Palliative Care
The Berlin Declaration: A Collaborative Roadmap to Advance Global Hospice and Palliative Care
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DOI:
10.1089/jpm.2019.0557
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发表时间:
2019-11-14
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2.8
通讯作者:
Radbruch, Lukas
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作者:
Connor, Stephen R.;De Lima, Liliana;Radbruch, Lukas
In May 2019, we, as representatives of the three global palliative care organizations (International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care [IAHPC], International Children’s Palliative Care Network [ICPCN], and Worldwide Hospice Palliative Care Alliance [WHPCA]), met in Berlin to discuss how to work more closely together to convey the same messages on major global health policy issues. In the face of changing economic times and limited funding opportunities in global palliative care, we also discussed future sustainability and how working together provides an opportunity to share and conserve resources. After decades of absence from the global health agenda, thanks to joint efforts from the three organizations, in collaboration with regional and national associations as well as with key partners from relevant fields, palliative care is now included in some important health policy documents as part of an essential spectrum of services. These documents include the United Nations Declaration on Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases, 1 the Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS, 2 and the Political Declaration of the High-level Meeting on Universal Health Coverage (UHC) 3; the World Health Organization (WHO) Report on UHC4; the World Health Assembly (WHA) Resolution on Palliative Care5; the Outcome Document of the UN General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on the World Drug Problem6; the WHA Resolution on Cancer7 and the WHO Global Action Plan on Dementia8; the WHO Astana Declaration9; and the Supplemental Reports by the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) on the availability of internationally controlled drugs. 10, 11Notwithstanding palliative care’s inclusion in this highlevel narrative, palliative care services have yet to be concretely integrated into national health strategies and included in regional and global health strategies. We are at a critical time. UN member states have committed to achieving the 17 goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), 12 meaning they have 10 years to integrate palliative care into UHC as an essential service under SDG 3.