Research
Equity and socioeconomic determinants of integrating inpatient hospice and palliative care into primary health care: a spatiotemporal ecological study in China, 2019–2023
Nature ·
The Brief
- The study is an ecological analysis of how inpatient hospice and palliative care is integrated into primary health care in China.
- It covers the period 2019–2023 and examines spatial and temporal patterns.
- It focuses on equity and socioeconomic determinants of this integration.
Why it matters
It examines whether access to palliative care integrated into primary care is distributed equitably across regions with different socioeconomic conditions, which bears on how health systems plan such services.
Who’s affected
- health policy researchers
- primary care and palliative care planners
- #palliative care
- #hospice care
- #primary care
- #health equity
- #china
- #health policy