Societal Impact of Headache Burden, Costs and Response /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Steiner, Timothy J. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Stovner, Lars Jacob (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Headache,
• Subjects: Internal medicine.; Neurology .; Pain medicine.; Health administration.; Internal Medicine.; Neurology.; Pain Medicine.; Health Administration.

This volume describes the impact of headache disorders on public health, and their adverse consequences for society. It opens with an overview of relevant headache disorders before describing, qualitatively, how the burdens attributable to these disorders fall upon adults, adolescents and children....

Table of Contents:

• 1 Introduction
• PART I HEADACHE and public health 2 The meaning of "headache" in the context of society (overview of headache disorders with societal impact)
• 3 Headache-attributed burden (the qualitative components)
• 4 Global surveys: WHO's Atlas of headache disorders and resources in the world
• 5 Global surveys: GBD 2010
• PART II METHODOLOGIES 6 Headache epidemiological studies (a summary of the principles and recommendations with focus on pitfalls)
• 7 Quantifying headache-attributed burden (specific measures, such as symptom and disability burdens, including headache yesterday, interictal burden, cumulative burden, willingness to pay; generic measures such as quality of life; HARDSHIP)
• 8 Headache, functional impact and environment (ICF). PART III CONSEQUENCES FOR SOCIETY 9 Epidemiology and burden of headache (published studies to 2007 + LTB studies)
• 10 Cost (financial cost, including Eurolight)
• PART IV SOCIETY'S RESPONSE 10 Political insouciance (the failure to recognize headache as a major cause of public ill-health and societal cost, including messages from WHO's Atlas of headache disorders and resources in the world)
• 11 Responding with the support of WHO (the Global Campaign against Headache)
• 12 Societal intervention: headache service organization and delivery
• 13 Societal intervention: headache service quality
• 14 Interventions (effectiveness and cost-effectiveness)
• 15 The way forward.