EAPC Atlas of Palliative Care in Europe 2019

Table of contents
INDEX
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1. Presentation .................................................................................................11
Foreword .......................................................................................................13
Note from the authors .............................................................................14
Net of collaborators of the 2019 EAPC ATLAS ............................... 15
International Committee of Experts on Indicators .............. 15
Key Informants of each participating countries ...................16
Collaborators of the EAPC specific studies .............................18
The Atlas project group ..........................................................................19
The institutions involved ........................................................................21
2. Aims and objectives ...............................................................................23
3. Population and methods .................................................................... 27
Geopolitical map of the WHO European Region......................... 28
Socio-economic context ...................................................................... 30
Palliative Care needs across Europe .................................................33
Methods of the project .......................................................................... 36
The cartography ........................................................................................ 42
Limitations and constraints ................................................................. 42
Abbreviations ............................................................................................. 42
4. Development and Integration
of Palliative Care across Europe .....................................................43
Chapter 1. Specialised Palliative Care
Services for Adults ................................................................................... 45
Chapter 2. Integration of Palliative Care
and Paediatrics .......................................................................................... 51
Chapter 3. Palliative Care integration
in national health systems in Europe ................................................57
Chapter 4. Palliative Care education across Europe ................61
Chapter 5. Use of medicines for Palliative Care ........................ 65
Chapter 6. Palliative Care vitality
and professsional activity .....................................................................69
Chapter 7. Integration of Palliative Care
in Long-Term Care Facilities in 18 European countries ..............73
Chapter 8. Development of Volunteering in Hospice
and Palliative Care in 15 European Countries ................................77
Chapter 9. Integration of Palliative Care
at the Primary Care level .......................................................................81
Chapter 10. Integration of Palliative Care
into Cardiology .......................................................................................... 85
Chapter 11. Integration of Oncology
and Palliative Care ...................................................................................89
5. Development of Palliative Care
at the Country-Level .....................................................................93
How to read de country information................................................ 95
Albania ..........................................................................................................96
Armenia ........................................................................................................98
Austria ........................................................................................................ 100
Azerbaijan ..................................................................................................102
Belarus ........................................................................................................104
Belgium .......................................................................................................106
Bosnia and Herzegovina ......................................................................108
Bulgaria ........................................................................................................110
Croatia .......................................................................................................... 112
Cyprus ..........................................................................................................114
Czech Republic ........................................................................................116
Denmark ......................................................................................................118
Estonia ........................................................................................................120
Finland .........................................................................................................122
France ...........................................................................................................124
Georgia ........................................................................................................ 126
Germany ......................................................................................................128
Greece .........................................................................................................130
Hungary .......................................................................................................132
Iceland .........................................................................................................134
Ireland ..........................................................................................................136
Israel .............................................................................................................138
Italy ...............................................................................................................140
Kazakhstan ................................................................................................142
Kyrgyzstan ................................................................................................. 144
Latvia ...........................................................................................................146
Liechtenstein ............................................................................................ 148
Lithuania ....................................................................................................150
Luxembourg ...............................................................................................152
Macedonia ..................................................................................................154
Malta ............................................................................................................ 156
Moldova .......................................................................................................158
Monaco .......................................................................................................160
Montenegro ............................................................................................... 162
Netherlands ..............................................................................................164
Norway ........................................................................................................166
Poland .........................................................................................................168
Portugal ......................................................................................................170
Romania ......................................................................................................172
Russian Federation .................................................................................174
Serbia ........................................................................................................... 176
Slovakia ........................................................................................................178
Slovenia ......................................................................................................180
Spain .............................................................................................................182
Sweden ....................................................................................................... 184
Switzerland ................................................................................................186
Tajikistan .................................................................................................... 188
Turkey ..........................................................................................................190
Ukraine ........................................................................................................ 192
United Kingdom ......................................................................................194
Uzbekistan .................................................................................................196
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