New Study Highlights Critical Gaps in Global End-of-Life Care Policies
A new study by the EOLinPLACE research team, titled "Places of end-of-life care and death in health policies of four countries", has just been published in Health & Place, offering rare cross-national insights into how end-of-life (EoL) care policies address preferred and actual places of care and death.
The research examines policy documents from four countries — the United States, the Netherlands, Portugal and Uganda — making it one of the very few qualitative comparative studies on EoL care across diverse health systems. The study uncovers significant gaps in current policy approaches and provides recommendations to support policymakers seeking to improve care at the end of life. The full article is available here.
A concise summary is available in the team’s policy brief can be accessed here.