Choices in Palliative Care Issues in Health Care Delivery /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Blank, Arthur E. (Editor), O'Mahony, Sean (Editor), Selwyn, Amy (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2007.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Public health.; Health promotion.; Health administration.; Medicine & Public Health.; Public Health.; Health Administration.; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.

The average person lives with chronic disease for three to six years. Nine out of ten deaths in America are caused by chronic illness. Half of all care of HIV/AIDS patients is defined as palliative care. Keeping up with these statistics means improving on traditional concepts of palliative care to m...