After COVID-19: The Way We Die from Now On.
Camb Q Healthc Ethics
; 30(1): 69-72, 2021 Jan.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-997747
ABSTRACT
Ethical issues raised by the outbreak of COVID-19 have predominantly been addressed through a public health ethics lens. This article proposes that the rising COVID-19 fatalities and the World Health Organization's failure to include palliative care as part of its guidance on how to maintain essential health services during the pandemic have exposed palliative care as an underlying global crisis. It therefore calls for a different ethical framework that includes a care ethics perspective and thereby addresses the ways in which the pandemic has triggered new difficulties in ensuring the delivery of appropriate end-of-life care for the dying. The article analyses the structural weaknesses of palliative care accentuated by the pandemic and proposes solutions that could set in motion lasting changes in the way it is delivered beyond COVID-19.
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International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Palliative Care
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COVID-19
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Camb Q Healthc Ethics
Journal subject:
Ethics
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
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