Headache care, research and education worldwide Frontiers in Headache Research Series Volume 17

by Olesen, Jes; Ramadan, Nabig

• ISBN13: 9780199584680
• ISBN10: 0199584680
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-07-29
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Headache medicine research is a rapidly expanding discipline and many important advances in headache management have developed over the last 20 years. However, the revolution and evolution in headache medicine has remained limited largely to the developed countries. Indeed, there is an enormous need for further quality and capacity of headache care in most parts of the world. Thankfully, efforts to bridge this gap have begun. To date, training of practitioners in headache medicine is improving in the developing countries, country-specific epidemiological research is increasing, and new therapies are trickling slowly to the developing world. Part of the Frontiers in Headache Research series, this book brings the theme of a global campaign to the forefront. Researchers, scientists, and respected clinicians from around the world discuss aspects of access to care, individual and societal burden, and public health authorities address the problems of headache medicine as public health issues to hundreds of millions of headache sufferers worldwide.

Author Biography

Jes Olesen, Professor of Neurology, Department of Neurology, Glostrup Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Nabih Ramadan, Division of Developmental Disabilities, Nebraska HHS Clinical Professor, Department of Neurology, Loyola University, Chicago, USA

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
The global burden of headache
North America and Western Europe	p. 13
South America	p. 23
South-East Asia region	p. 27
Western Pacific region	p. 35
A study within Lifting the Burden: The global campaign to reduce the burden of headache worldwide	p. 41
Discussion summary: The global burden of headache	p. 47
Societal barriers to headache care and research
Reimbursement policies in headache care	p. 51
Headache research in Europe and the United States	p. 57
The burden that migraine patients have to bear when seeking proper treatment in Japan	p. 65
Risk factors in medication overuse headache: A one-year follow-up study	p. 69
Quality assessment and improvement
Optimizing headache care for the individual patient	p. 75
Improving care through health economics analyses: Cost of illness and headache (general disease costing principles)	p. 83
Auditing headache care	p. 99
Headache inpatient Units	p. 107
Standards and guidelines
International harmonization of headache guidelines	p. 121
Implementation and impact of headache guidelines	p. 133
Discussion summary: Standards and guidelines	p. 141
Getting the right medicine to patients
Who essential medicines list: A comment on the migraine part of it	p. 145
Drug availability through expanded marketplace	p. 151
Cost control of headache medicines	p. 155
Discussion summary: Getting the right medicine to patients	p. 159
Education
Headache education for the medical student	p. 165
American Headache Society Committee for Headache Education: ACHE	p. 171
Headache disorders: Building specialist education	p. 173
Index	p. 179
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