| regional palliative care program in extremadura: an effective public health care model in a sparsely populated region. | the regional palliative care program in extremadura (rpcpex) was created and fully integrated into the public health care system in 2002. the local health care authorities of extremadura (a large sparsely populated region in the west of spain with 1,083,897 inhabitants) decided to guarantee palliative care as a basic right, offering maximum coverage, availability, and equity, functioning at all levels of assistance and based on the complexity of the case. the program provides full coverage of th ... | 2007 | 17482053 |