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The forgotten people in British public health: a national neglect of the dying, bereaved and caregivers
Karapliagou, Aliki Kellehear, Allan
Karapliagou, Aliki
Kellehear, Allan
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2016
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The clinical and social epidemiology of living
with a life-threatening or life-limiting illness, frail
ageing, long-term caregiving, and grief and
bereavement is well documented in the palliative
care, psycho-oncology and psychiatric literature
but this investigation asks what interest exists
from the mainstream public health sector in
these health and illness experiences. This paper
reports a content analysis of 7 key British public
health journals, 14 major public health textbooks
and 3 public health websites employing key
word and synonym searches to assess the size
and quality of interest in populations related to
ageing, dying, caregiving, and grief and
bereavement. Compared with other public health
issues, such as obesity and tobacco use, for
examples, interest in the social experience and
epidemiology of end-of-life experiences is
extremely low. Reasons for this lack of interest
are explored.
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Karapliagou A and Kellehear A (2016) The forgotten people in British public health: a national neglect of the dying, bereaved and caregivers. BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care. 6(2): 153-159.
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