Building Specialized Palliative Care for the Czech Republic: A Fifteen-Year Leadership Journey in a Developing Country
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14110%2F20%3A00115985" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14110/20:00115985 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/jpm.2019.0662" target="_blank" >https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/jpm.2019.0662</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/jpm.2019.0662" target="_blank" >10.1089/jpm.2019.0662</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Building Specialized Palliative Care for the Czech Republic: A Fifteen-Year Leadership Journey in a Developing Country
Original language description
Since its creation, the Czech Republic has developed an advanced health system and social system. Life expectancy at birth has increased by an average of 7 years in only 20 years. However, polymorbidity and multicausality have now become topics of concern. In some ways they are products of our success. Yet, the health system and social system were not designed for these patients nor are health care professionals trained and willing to assess and address clinical needs of fragile, chronically ill, and incurable patients. This is true in much of the developing world where initial improvements have led to this new population-based challenge. In that sense, the Czech Republic is an example of what needs to happen in developing countries. Inpatient hospice care, which has been developing in the Czech Republic since 1993, is not the answer to this problem. Rather, approaches to ensure that the early introduction of palliative care in the course of serious illness care, personalized medicine, and a multidisciplinary approach in the system is required. Focusing only on terminal illness care is insufficient. Beginning in 2005-2006, we have worked to create a system of education and clinical services in specialized palliative care in the health and social system. This article seeks to describe the leadership steps of this systemic change in the Czech Republic with the objective of helping others make the same journey.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
30307 - Nursing
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
JOURNAL OF PALLIATIVE MEDICINE
ISSN
1096-6218
e-ISSN
1557-7740
Volume of the periodical
23
Issue of the periodical within the volume
5
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
4
Pages from-to
607-610
UT code for WoS article
000509226700001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85084379331