{"id":117,"date":"2022-12-22T12:02:09","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T12:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/victoriahewitt\/?page_id=117"},"modified":"2022-12-22T12:02:09","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T12:02:09","slug":"primary-care","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/victoriahewitt\/primary-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Primary Care"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Integration of palliative care into public health care systems is essential for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goal 3, target 8 on universal health coverage (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/apps.who.int\/gb\/ebwha\/pdf_files\/WHA67\/A67_R19-en.pdf\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/apps.who.int\/gb\/ebwha\/pdf_files\/WHA67\/A67_R19-en.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">WHA 67.19<\/a>). Without access to palliative care, health-related suffering remains unrelieved<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Community-based palliative care is essential because most people prefer to remain at home and primary health care providers with basic training in palliative care and symptom relief can respond effectively to most palliative care needs and arrange for transfer to a higher level of care when necessary. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background has-medium-font-size\"><strong>World Health Organization <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-blue-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/docs\/default-source\/primary-health\/declaration\/gcphc-declaration.pdf\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/docs\/default-source\/primary-health\/declaration\/gcphc-declaration.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Declaration of Astana (2018)<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reaffirms the Declaration of Alma-Ata (1978) and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, stating that &#8220;<strong>palliative care must be accessible to all<\/strong>&#8221; (page 5).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\"> &#8220;<em>We will prioritize disease prevention and health promotion and will aim to meet all people\u2019s health needs across the life course through comprehensive preventive, promotive, curative, rehabilitative services and palliative care<\/em>&#8221; (page 6). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-blue-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/publications\/i\/item\/integrating-palliative-care-and-symptom-relief-into-primary-health-care\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/publications\/i\/item\/integrating-palliative-care-and-symptom-relief-into-primary-health-care\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Integrating palliative care and symptom relief into primary health care: <\/a>A WHO guide for planners, implementers and managers<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Practical guidance on integrating palliative care and symptom relief into health care systems. It is intended to assist anyone involved with planning, implementing, managing or assuring the quality of PHC to integrate palliative care and symptom control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Integration of palliative care into public health care systems is essential for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goal 3, target 8 on universal health coverage (WHA 67.19). Without access to palliative care, health-related suffering remains unrelieved Community-based palliative care &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/victoriahewitt\/primary-care\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5465,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-117","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/victoriahewitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/victoriahewitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/victoriahewitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/victoriahewitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/victoriahewitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/victoriahewitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/victoriahewitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/117\/revisions\/120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/victoriahewitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}