The following is a list of Policy and Advocacy Tools available. If you know of a tool or resource, please send the information and URL here

Canadian Health Services Research Foundation Economic Evaluation of Two Regional Palliative Care Programs for Terminally Ill Cancer Patients
View Here

Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association 2004 Advocacy Strategy
Click Here

Donor organisations that support palliative care development in five world regions
Prepared by the International Observatory in End of Life Care prepared for the Open Society Institute
Authors: Michael Wright, Thomas Lynch and David Clark
Click Here

Facts On Dying: Policy relevant data on care at the end of life
http://www.chcr.brown.edu/dying/factsondying.htm

Fair Tests of Treatments in Health Care
Click Here

Girls: HIV/AIDS and Education
Click Here

Health Action International (HAI) and World Health Organization (WHO)
Essential Medicines Prices
http://www.haiweb.org/medicineprices/

Help the Hospices - Suffering at the End of Life - The State of the World Report
Click Here

Hospice Paliative Care Resources Policy and Advocacy Tools
52 page report (New window will open)
http://www.hospicecare.com/resources/pdf-docs/world_map_report.pdf

INCB List of Psychotropic Substances under International Control (Green List.pdf)

Integrating Palliative Care into the Continuum of HIV Care: An Agenda for Change
Promoting Excellence in End of Life Care of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Click Here

Michael Wright - International Observatory on End of Life Care
Models of hospice and palliative care in resource poor countries

Monitoring Financial Flows for Health Research: The changing landscape of health research for development Global Forum for Health Research, 2006.
Click Here

New Zealand Palliative Care Strategy
Click Here

Pain Advocacy Community
http://www.partnersagainstpain.com/painadvocacycommunity/

Pain and Policy Studies Group: Opioid Availability for Palliative Care Reference List
Click Here

Pain Law Legal Resources on Palliative Care and Pain Management
http://www.painlaw.org/

Palliative Care and Human Rights: A Resource Guide
Published by Open Society Institute and EQUITAS - International Centre for Human Rights Education
English Version    Spanish Version

Palliative Care for Children
http://aappolicy.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/pediatrics;106/2/351

Palliative Care for People Living with HIV/AIDS
Clinical Protocol for the WHO European Region, World Health
Organization. 2006
http://www.hospicecare.com/resources/pdf-docs/who-living-with-hivaids.pdf

Palliative Care in Resource Poor settings
http://hab.hrsa.gov/tools/palliative/chap19.html

Pope Benedict XVI Message - XV World Day of the Sick 2007 (Available in
English, Spanish and Italian)
http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/messages/sick/index_en.htm

Principles for Care of Patients at the End of Life: An Emerging Consensus among the Specialties of Medicine
http://www.milbank.org/endoflife/

Projections of Global Mortality and Burden of Disease from 2002 to 2030
Colin D. Mathers, Dejan Loncar
http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pmed.0030442

The BIAS FREE Framework: A practical tool for identifying and eliminating social biases in health research Mary Anne Burke and Margrit Eichler.
Global Forum for Health Research, Geneva, Switzerland, 2006
To access the document, click here

The Conduct of Systematic Research in Science
Click Here

The Hasting Center - Improving End of Life Car (US based)

The Solid facts: PALLIATIVE CARE
http://www.euro.who.int/document/E82931.pdf

United Nations - 1961 Convention on Narcotic Drugs .pdf

United Nations - 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances .pdf

USAID Project Profiles: Children Affected by HIV/AIDS
http://synergyaids.com/documents/CABA_FourthEdition_2005.pdf

World Health Organization (WHO) - Achieving Balance in National Opioids Control Policy: Guidelines for Assessment  (Available in several languages)
Pain and Policy Studies Group, WHO Collaborating Center.
http://www.medsch.wisc.edu/painpolicy/publicat/00whoabi/00whoabi.htm

World Health Organization (WHO) - Cancer Prevention and Control Program
http://www.hospicecare.com/resources/who-cancer-prevention-control.pdf

World Health Organization (WHO) - Essential Drugs List 14th Edition (March 2005)

World Health Organization (WHO). Guidelines for Achieving Balance in National Opioids Control Policies
(Slide presentation by Mr. David Joranson given at the IASP Congress in Sydney, Australia, August 2005)
Click Here

World Health Organization - International Nonproprietary Names for Pharmaceutical Substances (INN)
Click Here

World Health Organization (WHO). National Cancer Control Programmes: Policies
and Managerial Guidelines
http://www.who.int/cancer/media/en/408.pdf (English)
http://www.paho.org/Spanish/AD/DPC/NC/pcc-NCCP.pdf (Spanish)