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Journal of Palliative Care & Medicine | ISSN: 2165-7386 | Volume 8
August 27-28, 2018 | Boston, USA
4
th
International Conference on
Palliative Care, Medicine and Hospice Nursing
The politics of a good death: A comparative study over policies towards end-of-life care
Keyla C Montenegro
University of the West of Scotland, United Kingdom
T
he idea of death as a self-governed process is one created by different kinds of social movements and historical processes and
is deeply intertwined with the emergence of palliative care as a new medical expertise capable of providing individualized care
for terminally ill patients. Health has become a transactional zone between political concerns for the fitness of the nation for the
population and techniques of self-government for the care of self (Rose, 2015), palliative care can also be considered as a transactional
zone between political concerns and techniques of self-government. It is important to note that the palliative care model had a global
impact in creating the new end of life care strategies, policies, and movements. The relationship between palliative care and quality
of death can be seen in The Economist’s 2015 Quality of Death Index revealing the direct connection made between palliative care
dissemination and quality of death improvement in different societies. This brings us to our problem: there seems to be a tendency
to universalize and nationalize palliative care as a political solution for death. In order to understand the impact of policies based on
a globalized, unified model of palliative care, the study will be conducted in two different contexts that follows the same directives
from the World Health Organization (WHO) such as Brazil and United Kingdom to provide a better understanding of the impacts
of a globalized palliative care model.
keyla.montenegro@uws.ac.ukJ Palliat Care Med 2018, Volume 8
DOI: 10.4172/2165-7386-C3-021