Abstract:
Palliative care, a holistic multidisciplinary approach for those persons with
terminal diseases, providing relief for physical, emotional, psychosocial and
spiritual suffering of both the patients and their families and to support
the dignity of all involved in the process of dying¹.
Palliative care has developed recently, and an understanding of unmet
needs and barriers, especially in Kazakhstan, can be addressed through
innovative rigorous qualitative research methods covering all the
stakeholders involved. Palliative care is an integral Nazarbayev University’s
commitment to improving health services in Kazakhstan. The published
literature shows a lack of palliative care providers in Kazakhstan and the
few existing services are underdeveloped2,3.
Our current will substantially characterize more in-depth and more broadly
on opportunities and barriers for national expansion of quality palliative
care in Kazakhstan.