Experts from across the world have come together to develop the first ever Oxford Textbook of Public Health Palliative Care.
The new textbook is a comprehensive exploration of the idea that, though health and social care services are important, there are many equally important influences on people's experiences of death, dying, loss and care. Public health palliative care’ is a term used to encompass a variety of approaches that involve working with communities and wider society to improve people’s experience of death, dying and bereavement.
Contributions from Scotland include a chapter by Dr Sally Paul (Strathclyde University) on Public Health Palliative Care Education: Children and Schools; and a chapter by Rebecca Patterson and Mark Hazelwood (Scottish Partnership for Palliative Care) exploring Developing End of LIfe Literacy Through Public Education.
The textbook explores the role of 'new' public health, or health promotion, as the basis for the development of public health palliative care, looking beyond the traditional symptom-focused view of palliative care to emphasise the crucial roles of culture and community in death, dying, loss and caregiving.
The new book aims to be comprehensive in scope, covering the need for a public health approach to palliative care, basic theory and concepts, practice methods, population-based approaches, and research and education.
All are invited to attend one of the free online launch events:
Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine online launch event 11th May.
Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine online launch event 12th May
The new textbook was edited by Julian Abel and Allan Kellehear and is available to purchase from Oxford University Press.
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