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Save lives and relieve suffering : The twin imperatives of humanitarian response and the role of palliative care
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Humanitarian emergencies and crises (HECs) are large-scale events that often cause injuries, illness or death on a massive scale, social breakdown, forced displacement, and all types of physical, psychological, social, and spiritual suffering. They rarely are caused by a single factor and are usually the result of mixed climatic/geologic, human-made, environmental, political and economic causes and vulnerabilities (1, 2). The principles of humanitarianism explicitly require efforts both to save lives and to prevent and alleviate human suffering, and these two imperatives rarely are in conflict (1, 3–5). Yet throughout the world, humanitarian medical response focuses primarily on saving lives and lacks adequate attention to preventing and relieving suffering (6–9). This moral failing appears to have several causes including lack of adequate palliative care content in humanitarian response guides and training; legal or logistical barriers to opioid access in fragile, conflict-affected, and vulnerable settings; and negative attitudes toward palliative care (10).
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2023.1120380
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