Structured Q1 headache services as the solution to the ill-health burden of headache: 1. Rationale and description

• Published in: Journal of headache and pain Vol. 22; no. 1; pp. 1 - 22
• Main Authors: Timothy J. Steiner, Rigmor Jensen, Zaza Katsarava, Lars Jacob Stovner, Derya Uluduz, Latifa Adarmouch, Mohammed Al Jumah, Ali M. Al Khathaami, Messoud Ashina, Mark Braschinsky, Susan Broner, Jon H. Eliasson, Raquel Gil-Gouveia, Juan B. Gómez-Galván, Larus S. Gudmundsson, Akbar A. Herekar, Nfwama Kawatu, Najib Kissani, Girish Baburao Kulkarni, Elena R. Lebedeva, Matilde Leonardi, Mattias Linde, Otgonbayar Luvsannorov, Youssoufa Maiga, Ivan Milanov, Dimos D. Mitsikostas, Teymur Musayev, Jes Olesen, Vera Osipova, Koen Paemeleire, Mario F. P. Peres, Guiovanna Quispe, Girish N. Rao, Ajay Risal, Elena Ruiz de la Torre, Deanna Saylor, Mansoureh Togha, Sheng-Yuan Yu, Mehila Zebenigus, Yared Zenebe Zewde, Jasna Zidverc-Trajković, Michela Tinelli, on behalf of Lifting The Burden: the Global Campaign against Headache
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: BMC 01.12.2021
• Subjects: Barriers to care; Headache disorders; Health policy; Health-technology assessment; Needs assessment; Public health

Abstract 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 efficiently (and at lower cost) be treated in educationally supported primary care. At...