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Uncontrolled pain : Ukraine's obligation to ensure evidence-based palliative care / [Diederik Lohman].
Lohman, Diederik.; Human Rights Watch (Organization)
2011
RC271.P33 L64 2011 (Map It)
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Author
Lohman, Diederik.
Title
Uncontrolled pain : Ukraine's obligation to ensure evidence-based palliative care / [Diederik Lohman].
Published
New York, NY, USA : Human Rights Watch, [2011]
Copyright
©2011
Call Number
RC271.P33 L64 2011
Variant Title
Ukraine's obligation to ensure evidence-based palliative care
ISBN
156432768X
9781564327680
Description
93 pages : illustrations, map ; 28 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)727735516
Summary
"Every year, tens of thousands of people in Ukraine develop severe, chronic pain due to cancer, HIV/AIDS, and other health conditions. Most do not have access to adequate strong pain medications, even though morphine--the medication of choice for severe pain--is effective, safe, and inexpensive. Like Vlad Zhukovsky, many of these patients face unbearable suffering, often for extended periods of time. The World Health Organization holds that "[m]ost, if not all, pain due to cancer could be relieved if we implemented existing medical knowledge and treatments." Yet, the Ukrainian government has done little to ensure that patients who face severe pain have access to appropriate treatment, including morphine. Unnecessarily onerous drug regulations and lack of oral morphine make strong pain medications inaccessible to large swaths of the population. Even patients who can access them suffer since most doctors are not adequately trained in managing pain, and drug regulations interfere with evidence-based medical care. The lack of government action to address this situation violates the right to health and, in some cases, the prohibition of cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment. It also causes enormous pain to patients with pain and their families. Uncontrolled Pain: Ukraine's Obligation to Ensure Palliative Care calls on Ukraine's government to take immediate steps to ensure all patients with pain can access appropriate health services."--P. [4] of cover.
Note
"May 2011"--Table of contents page.
"Diederik Lohman wrote the report."--P. 92.
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Also available online.
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Also published in Ukrainian.
Available in Other Form
Online version: Lohman, Diederik. Uncontrolled pain. New York, N.Y. : Human Rights Watch, c2011 (OCoLC)723179807
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Glossary
Prologue: The Story of Vlad Zhukovsky
Summary
Key Recommendations
Methodology
I. Overview: Palliative Care and Pain Treatment
II. Rural Areas: Unavailable or Hard-to-Access Strong Pain Medications
The Story of Konstantin Zvarich
Lack of Narcotics Licenses at Health Clinics and Pharmacies
A Broken Pain Treatment Delivery System
Pharmacies and Opioid Analgesics
III. Throughout Ukraine: Ensuring Quality of Pain Treatment Services
The Story of Lyubov Klochkova
Comparing Ukrainian Pain Treatment Practices with WHO Principles
Problems with Treatment of Non-Cancer Pain
IV. Exploring the Causes of Untreated Pain
Policy
Education of Healthcare Workers
Drug Availability
The Role of Pharmaceutical Company Zdorovye Narodu
The Role of the INCB and UNODC
V. The Human Rights Analysis
National Law
The Right to Health
Palliative Care and the Right to Health
The Prohibition of Cruel, Inhuman, and Degrading Treatment
VI. A Way Forward: Recommendations for Immediate Implementation
To the Ukrainian Government
To Zdorovye Narodu
To the International Community
Acknowledgments.

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