1 40 1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 2023 Special Edition 5 - Low Resource Setting List Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Citation List Month 2023 SE5 - Low Resource Setting URL Address <a href="http://doi.org/10.1089/pmr.2022.0037" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"> http://doi.org/10.1089/pmr.2022.0037</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Assessing the Need for Pediatric Palliative Care in the Six Arab Gulf Cooperation Council Countries Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Palliative Medicine Reports Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2023 Subject The topic of the resource child; Palliative Care; article; female; human; male; quality of life; palliative therapy; human experiment; funding; mortality; prevalence; incidence; data source; Arab; Arabs; vocational education Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alotaibi Q; Dighe M Description An account of the resource Background: Palliative care is an essential element of universal health coverage. However, palliative care services, particularly pediatric palliative care (PPC) services, are still inadequately developed in many countries, not least members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates). Advocating for palliative care services requires data-driven estimates of the number of patients needing these services. Objective(s): To estimate the number of children living with life-threatening illnesses in the GCC countries requiring specialist and/or generalist palliative care service provision. Method(s): Descriptive analysis of published cross-sectional epidemiological data. Subjects were from general and age-specific populations from individual GCC countries. The quantitative data on child population and mortality were collected from 2019 primary and secondary data sources. The need for PPC was estimated using mortality, incidence, and prevalence data from the Institute for Health Metrics and the Global Cancer Observatory. Result(s): Our conservative analysis revealed that just under 22,000 children needed PPC in GCC countries in 2019, a minimum of 17.5 for every 10,000 children. Discussion(s): There is a significant need for PPC services, suggesting that the medical needs of the pediatric population are currently not being fully met. Nationwide PPC services are essential to improve the quality of life of thousands of children in GCC countries by changing policies, professional education, and providing funding to palliative programs. To our best knowledge, this is the first study to highlight the clear and urgent need for the development of PPC services in the GCC countries. Copyright © Qutaibah Alotaibi and Manjiri Dighe MD 2023; Published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. 2023. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <a href="http://doi.org/10.1089/pmr.2022.0037" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1089/pmr.2022.0037</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Article information provided for research and reference use only. PedPalASCNET does not hold any rights over the resource listed here. All rights are retained by the journal listed under publisher and/or the creator(s). 2023 2023 SE5 - Low Resource Setting Alotaibi Q Arab Arabs Article Child data source Dighe M Female Funding Human Human Experiment Incidence Male Mortality Palliative Care Palliative Medicine Reports Palliative Therapy Prevalence Quality Of Life vocational education