Oxford Textbook of Public Health Palliative Care

Death, dying, loss, and care giving are not just medical issues, but societal ones. Palliative care has become increasingly professionalised, focused around symptom science. With this emphasis on minimizing the harms of physical, psychological, and spiritual stress, there has been a loss of how cultures and communities look after their dying, with the wider social experience of death often sidelined in the professionalisation and medicalisation of care. However, the people we know and love in the places we know and love make up what matters most for those undergoing the experiences of death, loss, and care giving. Over the last 25 years the theory, practice, research evidence base, and clinical applications have developed, generating widespread adoption of the principles of public health approaches to palliative care. The essential principles of prevention, harm reduction, early intervention, and health and wellbeing promotion can be applied to the universal experience of end of life, irrespective of disease or diagnosis. Compassionate communities have become a routine part of the strategy and service development in palliative care, both within the UK and internationally. The Oxford Textbook of Public Health Palliative Care provides a reframing of palliative care, bringing together the full scope of theory, practice, and evidence into one volume. Written by international leaders in the field, it provides the first truly comprehensive and authoritative textbook on the subject that will help to further inform developments in this growing specialty.

Product details

• Authors: Abel, Julian Abel, Julian (Director Abel
• Assisted by: Julian Abel (Editor), Julian (Director Abel (Editor), Allan Kellehear (Editor), Allan (Clinical Professor Kellehear (Editor), Kellehear Allan (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2022
• EAN: 9780198862994
• ISBN: 978-0-19-886299-4
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 220 mm x 280 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Print on Demand; Oxford Textbooks In Palliative Medicine; Oxford Textbooks in Palliative
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine; MEDICAL / Public Health, MEDICAL / Terminal Care, MEDICAL / Epidemiology, Public health & preventive medicine, Terminal care nursing, Palliative Medicine, Public health and preventive medicine