Societal Impact of Headache
Burden, Costs and Response
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Open AccessGBD2021: headache disorders and global lost health – a focus on children, and a view forward
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Open AccessThe HARDSHIP databases: a forthcoming free good from the Global Campaign against Headache
In order to pursue its purpose of reducing the global burden of headache, the Global Campaign against Headache has gathered data on headache-attributed burden from countries worldwide. These data, from the ind...
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Global epidemiology of migraine and its implications for public health and health policy
Migraine is one of more than 200 headache disorders but stands out among these as a major cause of population ill health. In migraine epidemiology, the key variable is prevalence, but, from the perspective of ...
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Open AccessThe Global Campaign turns 18: a brief review of its activities and achievements
The Global Campaign against Headache, as a collaborative activity with the World Health Organization (WHO), was formally launched in Copenhagen in March 2004. In the month it turns 18, we review its activities...
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Open AccessThe global prevalence of headache: an update, with analysis of the influences of methodological factors on prevalence estimates
According to the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study, headache disorders are among the most prevalent and disabling conditions worldwide. GBD builds on epidemiological studies (published and unpublished) whic...
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Open AccessStructured headache services as the solution to the ill-health burden of headache: 1. Rationale and description
In countries where headache services exist at all, their focus is usually on specialist (tertiary) care. This is clinically and economically inappropriate: most headache disorders can effectively and more effi...
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Open AccessHigh sensitivity C-reactive protein and risk of migraine in a 11-year follow-up with data from the Nord-Trøndelag health surveys 2006–2008 and 2017–2019
Several previous studies have reported a cross-sectional association between elevated high sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP) and migraine. The aim of this population-based follow-up study was to investig...
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Open AccessTime trends of major headache diagnoses and predictive factors. Data from three Nord-Trøndelag health surveys
The primary aim of this study was to investigate time trends of major headache diagnoses using cross-sectional data from two population-based health surveys. In addition, we aimed to perform a longitudinal ass...
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Open AccessThe crossover design for migraine preventives: an analyses of four randomized placebo-controlled trials
To evaluate the crossover design in migraine preventive treatment trials by assessing dropout rate, and potential period and carryover effect in four placebo-controlled randomized controlled trials (RCTs).
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Open AccessThe impact of C-reactive protein levels on headache frequency in the HUNT study 2006–2008
Increased high sensitivity C- reactive protein (hs-CRP) levels have been found in many earlier studies on migraine, and recently also in persons with migraine and insomnia. The aim of this study was to see whe...
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Open AccessDiffusion tensor imaging in middle-aged headache sufferers in the general population: a cross-sectional population-based imaging study in the Nord-Trøndelag health study (HUNT-MRI)
Several studies have investigated white matter with diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) in those suffering from headache, but so far only in clinic based samples and with conflicting results.
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Open AccessThe burden of headache disorders in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, 1990-2016: findings from the Global Burden of Disease study 2016
Using the findings of the Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD), we report the burden of primary headache disorders in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) from 1990 to 2016.
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Headache, Functional Impact and Environment
Recent improvements in the methodology of population-based studies have led not only to better estimates of prevalence but also to better, more inclusive descriptions of headache-attributed burden. Yet it is s...
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The Way Forward
Earlier chapters have described a world in which headache-attributed burden is high but neglected—and proposed a healthcare solution.
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Headache-Attributed Burden: Its Qualitative Components
“Burden of disease” at a population level is the sum of all the negative effects a disease has on the individuals within that population, together with any societal burden. It is a complex construct. This chap...
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Introduction
Tension-type headache (TTH) and migraine are very common: the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study 2010 (GBD2010) found them to be the second and third most prevalent disorders in the world, after dental carie...
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Headache Disorders and the World Health Organization
Our understanding of headache-attributed burden (described in Chap. 4) comes in the main from formal epidemiological studies. This chapter reports a compleme...
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Methodology of Headache Measurement
This chapter builds on Chap. 6, discussing headache measurement in populations: prevalence estimation and quantification of burden. It describes the HARDSHIP...
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Headache in the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Studies
The significance of the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) studies for recognition of headache as a major public-health concern cannot be overrated.
