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Part 1 Introduction to the international hospice movement: hospicesworldwide - a mission statement; the International Hospice Movement from theperspective of the WHO; worldwide developments in hospice care - surveyresults. Part 2 Hospice experiences around the world: Africa - hospice inSouth Africa, Zimbabwe - the island hospice experience; the Americas -Bermuda - Patients Assistance League and Service (PALS), Royal VictoriaHospital Palliative Care Service - a Canadian experience, Foundation Omega -Colombia, hospice care in the US; Australasia - Hawke's Bay - a New Zealandapproach to hospice care; Europe - palliative medicine's first steps inCroatia, hospice in France, hospice in UK, the Ryder Italia experience inRome, the beginnings of hospice care under communist regime - the Cracowexperience, the Russian approach to hospice care, hospice in Spain; Asia -hospice development in China - "like green bamboo shoots in the spring", thehospice movement in a Chinese society - a Hong Kong experience, developmentof palliative care in India, hospice care in Japan; Near East - hospice andpalliative care services in Israel, hospice experience in Jordan - Al-MatahFoundation for Humanistic Care, palliative care for the terminally ill inSaudi Arabia. Part 3 Conclusion: hospice care on the international scene -today and tomorrow.