Journal of Palliative Care & Medicine
Open Access

Editorial

Palliative Care Gains Roots in China

¹Department of Psycho-oncology, Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Translational Research(Ministry of Education), Peking University Cancer Hospital & Institute, Beijing, China

²Executive Director and Professor, Middle East Cancer Consortium, Israel

Corresponding Author:

Michael Silbermann Executive Director and Professor Middle East Cancer Consortium, Israel Tel: 972-482-447-94 Fax: 972-483-463-38 E-mail: cancer@mecc-research.com

Received Date: May 03, 2017; Accepted Date: May 05, 2017; Published Date: May 10, 2017

Citation: Tang L, Silbermann M (2017) Palliative Care Gains Roots in China. J Palliat Care Med 7:e140. doi:10.4172/2165-7386.1000e140

Copyright: © 2017 Tang L. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

In China over the past decade, palliative medicine has emerged as a new program. Development of this program requires attention to current opportunities, obstacles and cultural concerns. A selected review showed that there is an urgent need for palliative care in mainland China. Several challenges to implementing palliative care service in China include: (1) cultural perception and misunderstanding of palliative care; (2) lack of professionally trained health-care providers; (3) administrative and policy problems; and (4) limited funding for palliative care and research. More efforts should be made in clinical practice, education and research to develop and implement palliative care in mainland China.

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