PRAVO NA PALIJATIVNU SKRB ZA DJECU U REPUBLICI HRVATSKOJ
THE RIGHT TO PALLIATIVE CARE FOR CHILDREN IN THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA

Summary/Abstract: Palliative care for children means active, complete care on physical, psychological, social and spiritual levels, anti it includes collaboration and active work with the family. Palliative care for children lasts during the period of illness and continues afler the death oj the child in the form oj expert assistance to the family in their grief. Such care folluws the principles of individual, holistic, transdisciplinary and biopsychosocial-spiritual approaches that come together in promoting the quality of life oj a child and his or her family. Numerous legal sources are the starting point for defining palliative care jor children as a fundamental human right to health care, as well as jor defining basic actions within this fundamental right. The right to palliative care includes rights from different systems, and collaboration and linking of different disciplines are needed in order to meet the needs oj the child and his family. The aim of this paper is to present crucial knowledge in the field oj palliative care for children and to examine how this right is implemented anti legally regulated in the Republic of Croatia.

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