Public Health in the Context of Life-Limiting Illnesses: Patient-Centered Care in Advanced and Life-Limiting Illnesses

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22 July 2024

Editorial: Public health in the context of life-limiting illnesses: patient-centered care in advanced and life-limiting illnesses

Mevhibe B. Hocaoglu

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Richard J. Siegert

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Margaret Sandham

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Rebecca J. Jarden

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Irene J. Higginson

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Mevhibe Hocaoglu

King's College London

Irene Higginson

King's College London

Richard John Siegert

Auckland University of Technology

The University of Melbourne

Margaret Sandham

Auckland University of Technology

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It is estimated that at least 60% of persons dying have a prolonged advanced illness. The need for palliative and end-of-life care will increase due to the rapidly aging world population and the increase of multiple long-term conditions. For these reasons, palliative care is an integral part of public health and public health strategies. Palliative care as holistic person-centered care and has played a critical role in the recent public health emergency of the COVID-19 pandemic. There is a close association between public health, health promotion, and palliative care, and this research topic will highlight this association.

Through a series of multi-disciplinary articles, we will explore public health in the context of life-limiting illnesses contributing to shaping person-centered care, including palliative, end-of-life, and rehabilitation. This research topic will discuss advanced and life-limiting illness as a public health challenge and explore the role of palliative and end-of-life care including rehabilitation in shaping person-centered care.

We are interested in original research articles both quantitative as well as qualitative, mixed methods research, literature reviews, and routine data relating to public health in advanced disease from community, social care as well as other health care settings. Studies that include primary, secondary, and routine, administrative data analyses are also relevant.

We welcome submissions from the fields of aging, palliative and end-of-life care, rehabilitation, person-centered outcomes, health economics, and those including innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and machine learning will be considered. National, local, as well as global studies on person-centered care exploring public health in the context of life-limiting illnesses will be considered.

It is estimated that at least 60% of persons dying have a prolonged advanced illness. The need for palliative and end-of-life care will increase due to the rapidly aging world population and the increase of multiple long-term conditions. For these reasons, palliative care is an integral part of public health and public health strategies. Palliative care as holistic person-centered care and has played a critical role in the recent public health emergency of the COVID-19 pandemic. There is a close association between public health, health promotion, and palliative care, and this research topic will highlight this association.

Through a series of multi-disciplinary articles, we will explore public health in the context of life-limiting illnesses contributing to shaping person-centered care, including palliative, end-of-life, and rehabilitation. This research topic will discuss advanced and life-limiting illness as a public health challenge and explore the role of palliative and end-of-life care including rehabilitation in shaping person-centered care.

We are interested in original research articles both quantitative as well as qualitative, mixed methods research, literature reviews, and routine data relating to public health in advanced disease from community, social care as well as other health care settings. Studies that include primary, secondary, and routine, administrative data analyses are also relevant.

We welcome submissions from the fields of aging, palliative and end-of-life care, rehabilitation, person-centered outcomes, health economics, and those including innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and machine learning will be considered. National, local, as well as global studies on person-centered care exploring public health in the context of life-limiting illnesses will be considered.

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Mevhibe Hocaoglu

King's College London

Irene Higginson

King's College London

Richard John Siegert

Auckland University of Technology

The University of Melbourne

Margaret Sandham

Auckland University of Technology

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Oceania Healthcare

Rachel Chambers

King's College London

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Frontiers in Public Health

Public Health Education and Promotion, Aging and Public Health, Family Medicine and Primary Care

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Public Health Education and Promotion

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