Estimates of serious health-related suffering (SHS) demonstrate immense unmet need for palliative care, predominately in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Because opioids are essential medicines in palliative care (PC), measuring their availability can be used to evaluate the capacity of health systems to meet need.
Read our new publication: Distributed Opioids in Morphine Equivalent: A Global Measure of Availability for Palliative Care. Published in Journal of Pain and Symptom Management.