Atlas Of Headache Disorders And Resources In The World 2011

Download or read book Atlas of Headache Disorders and Resources in the World 2011 written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Despite that headache is felt at some time by nearly everybody, and almost half the world's adults at any one time have recent personal experience of one or more of the three very common headache disorders, much is unknown about the public-health impact of these conditions. It is not known how, or how much, they affect many of the populations of the world, or how healthcare and other resources are utilized to mitigate their effects. This first global enquiry into these matters illuminates the worldwide neglect of a major public-health problem, and reveals the inadequacies of responses to it in countries throughout the world. The Atlas of Headache Disorders presents data acquired by WHO in collaboration with Lifting The Burden: the Global Campaign against Headache. Most of the information was collected in a questionnaire survey of neurologists, general practitioners and patients' representatives from 101 countries, performed from October 2006 until March 2009. Epidemiological data were compiled from published studies through a systematic review, and supplemented by data gathered in population-based studies undertaken within the Global Campaign." --Publisher website.