Provides practical guidance on integrating palliative care and symptom relief into responses to humanitarian emergencies and crises of all types.

The guide describes the medical and moral necessity of integrating palliative care and pain relief into responses to humanitarian emergencies and crises of all types. It offers an expanded conception of palliative care based on the needs of people affected by humanitarian emergencies and crises and proposes an essential package of palliative care for humanitarian emergencies and crises.

This resource is applicable to a wide range of humanitarian contexts, with suggestions of how to integrate palliative care into the response in a range of different disasters/emergencies. The topics addressed within this resource include: (i) what is a humanitarianism?; (ii) what are humanitarian emergencies and crises?; (iii) what is palliative care?; (iv) palliative care for people affected by various humanitarian emergencies and crises; (v) essential package of palliative care for humanitarian emergencies and crises; (vi) implementing palliative care in humanitarian emergencies and crises: practical considerations; (vii) ethical issues; and (viii) the research imperative. In addition, there are sample curriculum on palliative care in the setting of humanitarian emergencies and crises.

This resource supports those involved with planning, implementing or managing responses to humanitarian emergencies and crises, as well as palliative care leaders and practitioners interested in participating in responses to humanitarian emergencies and crises.