Palliative Care and perceptions at the three levels of health care: knowing and reflecting

Abstract

Introduction: Palliative care (PC) comprises a philosophy, a way of caring, that values the care of the person to the detriment of actions aimed at curing the disease. Objective: evaluate palliative care at three levels of health. Methodology: Integrative literature review research, guided by the following steps: construction of the research question; delimitation of inclusion and exclusion criteria; choice of databases; search and selection of studies; analysis and presentation of results. Results and Discussion: 300 studies were identified, after applying the language inclusion criterion, remaining 90 studies, and then reading the titles, in which 210 articles were excluded, as they were not related to the objective of this article. The abstracts of the 210 articles selected from the analysis of the titles were read and only those that met the inclusion criteria had their abstracts investigated. After that, the number of articles mentioned previously remained, which were read in full. 9 articles were selected to compose the research. Conclusion: Therefore, we conclude that palliative care, although it is a current and extremely necessary topic aiming at a quality of life in terminally ill patients, technical-scientific knowledge is still quite limited, however the objective of the work was achieved by highlighting hospital care, primary and household.