| Summary: | 碩士 === 美和科技大學 === 經營管理研究所 === 100 === Birth, aging, disease, and death are The Law of The Creator. World population is increasing Viet Nam current projections anticipate an annual increase of about 1 million people per year for the next two decades. Non-communicable diseases such as heart disease, cancers, strokes, chronic lungs, diabetes are increasing in most countries all over the world. Such situation is the same in Vietnam. Hence, terminally ill patients from Non-communicable diseases and number of deaths from those diseases are increasing, too.
In developed countries, hospice care programs are popular for terminally ill patients to care.
In developing countries, ninety percent of terminally ill patients need palliative care, but only ten percent of the global utilization is in developing countries. And most of the need for palliative care is for persons suffering from chronic non-communicable diseases.
In Viet Nam, leading hospitals are overloaded, so most of terminally ill patients are returned. Eighty percent of cancer patients who were discovered the disease late have a little chance of cure. Those patients can’t afford the use of expensive medications, so they choose to spend the short remainder on the family, relatives, endure terrible physical and emotional pains without any therapeutic treatment as well as palliative care.
In such situation, development of a model hospital service program for terminally ill patients is a pressing need and also a human culture.
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