13:30 – 17:00
PALL – Ensuring care until the end for everyone: palliative care as a public health priority
Organisers
EUPHA Health Services Research Section
European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC) Public Health & Palliative Care Reference Group
RAPHAEL project – IntegRAting a Palliative Care ApproacH for PAtients with HEart FaiLure
Objectives
The pre-conference will aim to:
- Present convincing arguments about why public health needs to be interested in palliative care as an issue of significance and why palliative care needs public health approaches.
- Present and discuss inequalities in access to palliative and end-of-life care across Europe, including socioeconomic, geographical, disease-related differences and macro-level differences across welfare and care regimes.
- Examine how palliative care need and quality can be measured and monitored at population and health systems level.
- Present and discuss successful strategies for integration of palliative care into oncological and chronic disease pathways, with a specific focus on heart failure and on reducing inequities between people with cancer and those with non-cancer chronic conditions.
- Use the RAPHAEL project to discuss practical barriers, facilitators and implementation strategies for integrating palliative care into routine chronic disease pathways.
- Discuss ‘compassionate communities’ as a social response to serious illness, dying, caregiving and bereavement, complementary to health care services.
- Identify priorities for research, policy and European collaboration on public health palliative care.