When
March 10, 2022
March 17, 2022
March 23, 2022
Program
Day 1 March 10, 2022
9:00AM - 12:00PM EST
Theme: The power and limits of health policy. Integration of palliative care into universal health coverage: aspirations and evidence.
Day 2 March 17, 2022
9:00AM - 12:00PM EST
Theme: Changing the culture of public health, biomedicine and communities.
Day 3 March 23, 2022
9:00AM - 12:00PM EST
Call for Abstracts
Theme: Identifying novel and feasible solutions across economic and cultural divides.
The Global Institute of Psychosocial, Palliative and End-of-Life Care (GIPPEC) and King’s College London, invite you to submit an abstract for the 2022 The Soul of Medicine in the Last Year of Life: Novel Solutions to Palliative Care Access Across Economic and Cultural Divides.
Submissions can include position papers, critiques, research projects or reviews, or health policy recommendations. Accepted abstracts will address at least one of the following three themes in relationship to universal access to palliative care:
1. The power and limits of health policy in promoting access to palliative care
• Government, politics, and the law
• The political environment/policy – how are decisions made?
• Integration of palliative care into universal health coverage: aspirations and evidence
2. Palliative care and the cultures of public health, biomedicine and communities
• How does local culture and the culture of medicine influence the delivery of palliative care in different resource settings?
• What are the drivers of aggressive treatment in the last months of life
• What is culturally sensitive and acceptable and economically feasible palliative care - perspectives from diverse settings
3. Identifying novel and feasible solutions for the delivery of palliative care across economic and cultural divides
• The role of technology
• Palliative care within primary and secondary care
• Psychological, spiritual and other palliative care provided by trained volunteers and non-specialists
• The impact of the ongoing pandemic
Click here for application details and the submission form.