Bioremediation of organic contaminants has become a major environmental concern in the
last few years, due to its bio-resistance and potential to accumulate in the environment. The …

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 …

The compassionate communities movement challenges the notion that death and dying
should be housed within clinical and institutional contexts, and works to normalize …

Background: Family caregiving is common globally, but when a family member needs
palliative and end-of-life care, this requires knowledge and expertise in dealing with …

Death literacy is defined as a set of knowledge and skills that make it possible to gain
access to understand and act upon end-of-life and death care options. People, and …

If global palliative care is to successfully address challenges of unequal access, continuity of
care, and health services reductionism, new practice models to address these issues need …

Compassionate communities as part of the public health approach to end-of-life care (EoLC)
offers the possibility of solving the inequity of the difference in provision of care for those …

Compassion can be enhanced through diverse methodologies at the organizational,
professional, and community levels. This enhancement of compassion has the potential to …

Current health and social care systems do not always meet the needs of the dying in our
communities. As a result, patients and families are choosing to place their trust in those who …

Performing end-of-life care can be a catalyst for develo** a capacity called death literacy.
This study aimed to develop a comprehensive and useable measure of death literacy that …