LAS NUEVAS DIMENSIONES DEL DERECHO HUMANO A LA SALUD. CUIDADOS PALIATIVOS.

New dimensions of fundamental human right to health, including palliative care, represent an important challenge for States within the framework of obligations undertaken regarding health issues. Palliative care focus on the person, must be interdisciplinary rendered by means of comprehensive health services in all levels of care, must serve limiting, chronic and incurable diseases as may be required, and must be provided to patients covering the entire age range. Constraints of diverse nature may be identified upon exercising the right to palliative care, including but not limited to deficiency or lack of specialized human resources and appropriate material resources at country level, as well as lack of appropriate information to the population with regards to the scope of this dimension of the right to health and the right to access thereof.