No abstract

Background: The faith and spirituality in palliative cares started to be used in medical community in the last decade of the XX century. The faith is known as a synonym of trust and hope being considered a positive emotion which helps the individual to enlarge tolerance, moral, growing creativity and building of new expectations. And the spirituality is related to psychological experiences of religiousness, associated individual idea. Such themes are inserted in the assistance to the palliative cancer patient.Objective: Evaluate current evidences related to faith themes and spirituality when used in palliative cares and its effects facing the life quality of these patients, aiming to systematize them.Method: Talks about a systematic qualitative review of faith and spirituality themes, whereas makes it possible to summarize researches already concluded and obtain conclusions from a theme of interest. The clinical research question, which was built through PICOS strategies, was "How can the faith and spirituality facilitate situations which promote life quality to patients who are experiencing palliative care?" The bibliographic search occurred in February/2015, in PubMed/ME-DLINE and Scopus databases, using indexed papers from January 2002 to December 2014.Results and discussion: 319 articles were obtained, being 67 eligible articles for final phase. The data was extracted in a standardized way, through a table of characterization and addressed to five categories, the current study pointed a scientific contribution as from faith and spirituality themes from the emotions anatomy knowledge covering how the authors could work with patients' positive emotions starting from faith and spirituality communication, such themes which permeated all Contact information:Modesto Leite Rolim Neto. modestorolim@yahoo.com.br InternatIonal archIves of MedIcIneSection: oncology Issn: 1755-7682 J 2015 Vol. 8 No. 124 doi: 10.3823/1723 This article is available at: www.intarchmed.com and www.medbrary.com 2 IntroductionThe World Health Organization (WHO) highlights the cancer as being one of the most non-transmissible deceases responsible for the population illness profile change, estimating that, in 2030, it's expected 27 million incident cancer, 17 million cancer deaths and 75 million living people, annually, suffering from cancer. The biggest effect of this increase will happen in low income countries, as a result, considering cancer a global health problem [1,2].Thinking of diagnosed population and cancer treatment, a group of scientists of São Paulo's Medicine Regional Council (CREMESP), 2002, described that most of the deceases are incurable, thus, the treatment aims its evolution control and turns this illness chronic. They use the word "cure" as a truth slightly worked in Medicine. Within this theme holding that the patient becomes out of "cure possibility" reflects two situations; every patient should be under palliative care, or it would only be addressed to palliative care according to medical team criteria whe...

Introduction: Bioethics emerges in oncologic palliative care from the reflections of that care at the end of life for cancer patients are usually inadequate because the individuals has little relief of symptoms, adverse reactions to treatment, threats of physical, social and psychological destruction and loss of functions.

The outbreak of Ebola in West Africa could become one of the worst infectious-disease-driven humanitarian crises of recent times. With more than 3000 deaths since the first case was confirmed in March 2014, the international community has recognized Ebola as a public health emergency of international concern and a clear threat to global health security. The complexity of dealing with this Ebola outbreak has highlighted the need for traditional actors, such as WHO and the CDC, to embrace the wider health and humanitarian community. The epidemic reinforces the need for nations to investment in health infrastructure and disease surveillance to keep pace with other developments in Africa. If Ebola arrives in high-income and middleincome nations, it should be contained quickly. The crisis shows the importance of sufficient levels of multilateral funding for WHO. The world needs a strong WHO, with the financing and political influence to fulfil its historic mission.

Background: Estimative demonstrate about 6% of the 20 million people needing palliative care at the end of their life are less than 15 years old. Despite of that, researchers reported several areas of parent dissatisfaction with care including confusing, inadequate, or uncaring communications with clinicians regarding treatment or prognosis of the child's end of life.Objective: Here we show that about 90% of the families that have a child or an adolescent passing through a situation that needs Palliative Sedation think that this process was necessary to relieve the suffering of the patient. Results:In several reports, parents of terminally ill children describe their perceptions of uncaring and insufficient communication from health care professionals and link that communication with their own lingering regrets and emotional distress. Conclusion:There is the necessity to better capacity the supportive and care team, in order to diminish guilty and grieve feelings, and to provide courses to the care team that can develop the communication process among them and the family.