Headache Care, Research and Education Worldwide. Frontiers in Headache Research Series Volume 17

ABOUT THIS BOOK

• This book brings the theme of a global campaign to improve headache care to the forefront, discussing aspects of access to care, individual and societal burden.
• Chapters are based on presentations given at the International Headache Research Seminar (http://www.ihrs.dk/)
• Includes contributions from researchers, scientists, and respected clinicians from around the world
• Discussion summaries throughout provide a helpful reference point for readers

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 suffers worldwide.

Readership: This book is aimed at headache specialists, neurologists, and neurology trainees, and will also be of interest to neuroscientists, public health researchers, specialist nurses, and interested general practitioners.

AUTHOR INFORMATION

Edited by Jes Olesen, Professor of Neurology, Department of Neurology, Glostrup Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and Nabih Ramadan, Chief Medical Officer, Division of Developmental Disabilities, Nebraska HHS Clinical Professor, Department of Neurology, Loyola University Chicago, USA

TABLE OF CONTENTS

TJ Steiner: Overview lecture: Lifting the burden: WHO's global campaign to reduce the burden of headache worldwide

Session I - The Global Burden of Headache
1: Ann I Scher, Walter F Stewart & Richard B Lipton: North America and Western Europe
2: Carlos A Bordini: South America
3: Ravishankar K: South East Asia Region
4: Fumihiko Sakai: Western Pacific Region
5: Lars Jacob Stovner: The global burden of headache - a study within lifting the burden: the global campaign to reduce the burden of headache worldwide
6: Lars Jacob Stovner: Discussion summary: the global burden of headache

Session II - Societal Barriers to headache Care and Research
7: Stuart B Black: Reimbursement policies in headache care
8: Robert E Shapiro & Todd J Schwedt: Headache research in Europe and the United States
9: Rie Kanki & Fumihiko Sakai: The burden which migraine patients have to bear in seeking proper treatments in Japan
10: N Ghiotto, G. Sances, F Gallli, C Tassorelli, E Guaschino, G Sandrini & G Nappi: Risk factors in medication overuse headache: a one-year follow-up study

Session III - Headache Care: 1. Quality Assessment & Improvement
11: Rigmor Jensen: Optimizing headache care for the individual patient
12: Francesco Saverio Mennini & Lara Gitto: Improving care through health economics analyses: cost of illness and headache (general disease costing principles)
13: Gretchen E. Tietjen: Auditing headache care
14: Frederick G Freitag: Headache inpatient units

Session IV - Headache Care: 2. Standards and Guidelines
15: Douglas C. McCrory: International harmonization of headache guidelines
16: Hans-Christoph Diener, Fabio Antoncai, Emilie Couturier, Peter J Goadsby, Rigmor Jensen, Jose Miguel Láinez, Richard B Lipton, Ivan Milanov, Dimos Mitsikostas, Peter Sandor, Jean Schoenen, Dominique Valade & Maria Wysocka-Bakowska: Implementation and impact of headache guidelines
17: Jes Olesen: Discussion summary: standard and guidelines

Session V - Headache Care: 3. Getting the Right Medicine to Patients
18: Peer Tfelt-Hansen: WHO essential medicines list: a comment on the migraine part of it
19: Lars Jacob Stovner: Drug availability through expanded marketplace
20: Glen D Solomon: Cost control of headache medicines
21: Timothy J Steiner & Glen D Solomon: Discussion summary: getting the right medicine to patients

Session VI - Headache Care: 4. Education
22: William B Young, Noah L Rosen & Fred Sheftell: Headache education for the medical student
23: Fred D Sheftell: American headache society committee for headache education ACHE
24: Paolo Martelletti & Timothy J Steiner: Headache disorders: building specialist education