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  "description": "Background\n          Quality end-of-life care has emerged as an important concept in industrialized countries.\n        \n        \n          Discussion\n          We argue quality end-of-life care should be seen as a global public health and health systems problem. It is a global problem because 85 % of the 56 million deaths worldwide that occur annually are in developing countries. It is a public health problem because of the number of people it affects, directly and indirectly, in terms of the well being of loved ones, and the large-scale, population based nature of some possible interventions. It is a health systems problem because one of its main features is the need for better information on quality end-of-life care. We examine the context of end-of-life care, including the epidemiology of death and cross-cultural considerations. Although there are examples of success, we could not identify systematic data on capacity for delivering quality end-of-life care in developing countries. We also address a possible objection to improving end-of-life care in developing countries; many deaths are preventable and reduction of avoidable deaths should be the focus of attention.\n        \n        \n          Conclusions\n          We make three recommendations: (1) reinforce the recasting of quality end-of-life care as a global public health and health systems problem; (2) strengthen capacity to deliver quality end-of-life care; and (3) develop improved strategies to acquire information about the quality of end-of-life care.",
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      "description": "Visit the original government dataset for complete information, documentation, and data access.",
      "downloadURL": "https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC122082/",
      "mediaType": "text/html",
      "title": "Official Government Data Source"
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  ],
  "identifier": "https://healthdata.gov/api/views/id2c-uum4",
  "issued": "2025-07-14",
  "keyword": [
    "end-of-life-care",
    "global-health",
    "mortality",
    "nih",
    "palliative-care"
  ],
  "landingPage": "https://healthdata.gov/d/id2c-uum4",
  "modified": "2025-09-06",
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    "009:034"
  ],
  "publisher": {
    "@type": "org:Organization",
    "name": "National Institutes of Health"
  },
  "theme": [
    "NIH"
  ],
  "title": "Quality end-of-life care: A global perspective"
}