Racism and casteism: global chasms of access to palliative care and pain relief

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York City, New York, USA rosaw@mskcc.org.
• ² Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, USA.
• ³ Trivandrum Institute of Palliative Sciences, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India.
• ⁴ Pallium India, Trivandrum, India.
• ⁵ Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
• ⁶ Boston College William F. Connell School of Nursing, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA.
• ⁷ Center for Nursing and Midwifery, University of Global Health Equity, Kigali, Rwanda.
• ⁸ Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA.
• ⁹ Tómatelo a Pecho, Mexico City, Mexico.
• ¹⁰ Fundación Mexicana para la Salud, Mexico City, Mexico.
• ¹¹ Palliative Care in Humanitarian Aid Situations and Emergencies, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
• ¹² Palliative Care for Children Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa.
• ¹³ Hope Institute Hospital, Kingston, Jamaica.
• ¹⁴ University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica.
• ¹⁵ Cicely Saunders Institute, King's College, London, UK.