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Revista mexicana de anestesiología
versión impresa ISSN 0484-7903
Resumen
COVARRUBIAS-GOMEZ, Alfredo; OTERO-LAMAS, Margarita; TEMPLOS-ESTEBAN, Luz A y SOTO-PEREZ-DE-CELIS, Enrique. Background of palliative medicine in Mexico: continuous paliative care education. Rev. mex. anestesiol. [online]. 2019, vol.42, n.2, pp.122-128. Epub 30-Mar-2020. ISSN 0484-7903.
Aim:
To share with the medical community the development of palliative care in an Spanish speaking country.
Method:
Documental research and direct interview to physicians actively involved in the development of palliative care in Mexico.
Results:
Pain clinics in were born in early seventies and the palliative care movement during the eighties. It is recently that the legislation in this nation favors palliative care.
Conclusions:
Mexico is now among those countries with a legislation that includes palliative care. The laws and legislation of that country define and guide those health care providers that interact with palliative patients, and also stablish palliative care as a health right for its habitants.
Palabras llave : Medicine; Care; Palliative; Mexico; Education.