Alleviating the access abyss in palliative care and pain relief-an imperative of universal health coverage: the Lancet Commission report

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Public Health Sciences, Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA; Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA; Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA; Tómatelo a Pecho, A.C., Mexico City, Mexico; Fundación Mexicana para la Salud, A.C., Mexico City, Mexico. Electronic address: fknaul@miami.edu.
• ² Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
• ³ Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
• ⁴ International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care, Houston, TX, USA.
• ⁵ Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA; Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
• ⁶ Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA; Tómatelo a Pecho, A.C., Mexico City, Mexico; Fundación Mexicana para la Salud, A.C., Mexico City, Mexico.
• ⁷ National Institute of Public Health, Morelos, Mexico.
• ⁸ Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA.
• ⁹ Pan American Health Organization, Regional Office of WHO, Washington, DC, USA.
• ¹⁰ Worldwide Hospice Palliative Care Alliance, London, UK.
• ¹¹ Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA; Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
• ¹² Health and Human Rights Division, Human Rights Watch, Maplewood, NJ, USA.
• ¹³ International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care, Houston, TX, USA; Department of Palliative Medicine, University Hospital Bonn, Germany; The Malteser Hospital, Bonn, Germany.
• ¹⁴ Costa Rican Social Security Fund, San José, Costa Rica.
• ¹⁵ Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
• ¹⁶ Weill Cornell Medical College, New York City, NY, USA.
• ¹⁷ Department of Public Health Sciences, Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA; School of Business Administration, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA.
• ¹⁸ University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.
• ¹⁹ Trivandrum Institute of Palliative Sciences, WHO Collaborating Centre for Training and Policy on Access to Pain Relief, Pallium India, Kerala, India.