Commission Report

The groundbreaking report from The Lancet Commission on Palliative Care and Pain Relief in available in full on The Lancet's website.

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

Felicia Marie Knaul, Paul E Farmer, Eric L Krakauer, Liliana De Lima, Afsan Bhadelia, Xiaoxiao Jiang Kwete, Héctor Arreola-Ornelas, Octavio Gómez-Dantés, Natalia M Rodriguez, George A O Alleyne, Stephen R Connor, David J Hunter, Diederik Lohman, Lukas Radbruch, María del Rocío Sáenz Madrigal, Rifat Atun, Kathleen M Foley, Julio Frenk, Dean T Jamison, M R Rajagopal, on behalf of the Lancet Commission on Palliative Care and Pain Relief Study Group

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Podcast

Palliative Care and Pain Relief

This podcast was moderated by Francesca Towey from The Lancet. The commissioners discussed the report's key findings, conclusions, and recommendations.

• Felicia Marie Knaul | Chair, Lancet Commission on Palliative Care and Pain Relief; Director, University of Miami Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas; Professor, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
• Julio Frenk | President, University of Miami and former Minister of Health in Mexico; former Minister of Health, Mexico