Access to care - an unmet need in headache management?

The Journal of Headache and Pain

Commentary

Elena Ruiz de la Torre¹  Peter Vriezen²  Leo Van Os²  Hilkka Kettinen³  Dietmar Krause⁴  Cristina Tassorelli⁵  Audrey Craven⁶  Wendy Thomas⁷  Srdjan Stretenovic⁸  Ingemar Farm⁹ 

[1] Asociación Española Pacientes con Cefalea, Valencia, Spain;Dutch Headache Patient Association, Rotterdam, The Netherlands;Finnish Migraine Association, Helsinki, Finland;German Green Cross, Tübingen, Germany;Headache Science Centre, C. Mondino National Neurological Institute, Pavia, Italy;Department of Brain and Behaviour, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy;Migraine Association of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland;Migraine Trust, London, UK;Serbian Migraine Association, Belgrade, Serbia;University Hospital KBC Zvezdara, Belgrade, Serbia;Swedish Migraine Association, Stockholm, Sweden;

关键词: Headache disorders;    Migraine;    Healthcare;    Management;   

DOI  :  10.1186/1129-2377-15-20

 received in 2014-01-11, accepted in 2014-03-12,  发布年份 2014

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

Access to care for headache sufferers is not always simple. A survey conducted in a large number of members of lay associations point to the existence of multiple barriers to care for headache in several European countries. Patients usually discover the existence of specialized structures with a delay of several years after the onset of their headache. Furthermore, a relevant portion of them are not satisfied with the management of their disease, partly because of the poor efficacy of treatments and partly because of the difficulty to get in touch with the specialist. Headache disorders, and primary headaches in particular, represent an important issue in public health, because they are common, disabling and treatable. A joint effort is required from the relevant stakeholders (scientists, lay organizations, decision-makers, healthcare policymakers, and others) to improve the access to care for headache sufferers.

【 授权许可】

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© Tassorelli et al.; licensee Springer. 2014. This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited.