title: Establishing Palliative Care across the AKDN Health Services: Opportunities and Challenges.
abstract: AKDN has one of the most comprehensive private not-for-profit health care systems in the developing world. It has state-of-the-art urban academic tertiary care centers, service hospitals and community based primary care centers spread across the most remote areas of Central and South Asia and East Africa. In response to a global initiative to make palliative care widely available, the AKDN is spearheading the integration of palliative care across its international health network. The scope includes specialist palliative care services in urban tertiary care centers across secondary and outreach programs to home based palliative care services. The ultimate goal is to develop a comprehensive structure of palliative care services which, in addition tofulfilling the vision of quality, also fulfills the needs of the communities that it serves. This article describes the international undertaking; its challenges and the key contextual design principles of the implementation.
authors: Salim
authors: S
authors: Hasham
authors: Sameena
authors: S
authors: Shah
authors: Laila
authors: L
authors: Khymani
authors: David
authors: D
authors: Makumi
authors: Zeenat Sulaiman
authors: ZS
authors: Khan
mesh_terms: D000349:Africa; D001208:Asia; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006801:Humans; D007390:International Agencies / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D010166:Palliative Care / Q000458:organization & administration*