Publications

The following publications from Lifting The Burden or its collaborating partners are viewable on the site or via links to other sites. Follow the links.

WHO Fact Sheet on headache

Sheftell F, Steiner TJ, Thomas H. Harry Potter and the curse of headache. Headache 2007;47:911-916

Martelletti P, Haimanot RT, Lainez MJA, Rapoport AM, Ravishankar K, Sakai F, Silberstein SD, Vincent M, Steiner TJ. The global campaign to reduce the burden of headache worldwide. The international team for specialist education (ITSE). J Headache Pain 2005; 6: 261-263. [not yet available] 

Steiner TJ. Lifting The Burden: The global campaign to reduce the burden of headache worldwide. J Headache Pain 2005; 6: 373-377. [not yet available]

Leonardi M, Steiner TJ, Scher AT, Lipton RB. The global burden of migraine: measuring disability in headache disorders with WHO's Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF). J Headache Pain 2005; 6: 429-440. [not yet available]

Diener H-C, Steiner TJ, Tepper SJ, Migraine - the forgotten epidemic: development of the EHF/WHA Rome Declaration on Migraine. J Headache Pain 2006; 7: 433-437. [not yet available]

Katsarava Z, Kukava M, Mirvelashvili E, Tavadze A, Dzagnidze A, Djibuti M, Steiner TJ. A pilot methodological validation study for a population-based survey of the prevalences of migraine, tension-type headache and chronic daily headache in the country of Georgia. J Headache Pain (in press). [not yet available]

PDF icon Headache disorders and public health (Headache_Disorders_and_Public_Health.pdf | 77 kB)

World Health Organization. Headache disorders and public health. Geneva: WHO, 2000.

Steiner TJ. Lifting the burden: the global campaign against headache. Lancet Neurol 2004; 3: 204-205.

Stovner LJ, Hagen K, Jensen R, Katsarava Z, Lipton R, Scher AI, Steiner TJ, Zwart J-A. The global burden of headache: a documentation of headache prevalence and disability worldwide. Cephalalgia 2007; 27: 193-210.