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ReviewBMJ global health2025

Confronting global inequities in palliative care.

Anna Peeler, Oladayo Ayobami Afolabi, Katherine E Sleeman, Maha El Akoum, Nahla Gafer, Asmus Hammerich, Richard Harding

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Review in BMJ global health, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

27 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Anna PeelerCicely Saunders Institute of Palliative Care, Policy, and Rehabilitation, King's College London Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing Midwifery & Palliative Care, London, UK anna.peeler@kcl.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4113-9714
Oladayo Ayobami AfolabiCicely Saunders Institute of Palliative Care, Policy, and Rehabilitation, King's College London Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing Midwifery & Palliative Care, London, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7420-2957
Katherine E SleemanCicely Saunders Institute of Palliative Care, Policy, and Rehabilitation, King's College London Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing Midwifery & Palliative Care, London, UK.
Maha El AkoumWorld Innovation Summit for Health, Doha, Qatar.
Nahla GaferWorld Health Organisation Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, Cairo, Egypt.
Asmus HammerichWorld Health Organisation Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, Cairo, Egypt.
Richard HardingCicely Saunders Institute of Palliative Care, Policy, and Rehabilitation, King's College London Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing Midwifery & Palliative Care, London, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9653-8689

Funding

World Health Organization 001
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The number of people dying with preventable, serious health-related suffering is rapidly increasing, and international calls for the expansion of palliative care services have been made, such as the World Health Assembly Resolution 67.19, which named palliative care as an essential component of Universal Health Coverage. Despite this, only about 14% of all palliative care need globally is met today, and health systems around the world are unprepared to meet the growing need. Palliative care has been shown to improve patient, caregiver and health-system outcomes and reduce costs for many populations and contexts. Geographic, social, cultural and health-literacy related inequities in access to and quality of palliative care services persist. We provide evidence-based recommendations which require immediate, coordinated action to improve progress towards achieving equitable access to high-quality palliative care for all. These include but are not limited to ensuring every country has palliative care codified into national health policy; providing evidence-based, basic palliative care education and training for all non-specialist healthcare workers; empowering and facilitating community action in research and service development; and ensuring that all essential palliative care medicines are available for those who need them. Unless urgent, evidence-based, coordinated action is taken, countries, health systems, and communities will fail to meet the growing palliative care demand, and millions of people around the world will experience preventable suffering.

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Global HealthHealthcare DisparitiesPalliative CareHealth Services AccessibilityHumansGlobal HealthHealth economicsHealth policyPublic Health

Identifiers

PMID40379276
PMCPMC12086877

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