WUNRN
HEADACHES - WOMEN MORE PRONE TO
HEADACHES - STUDY
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Rashmi
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A recent study on burden of headache disorder in adults aged between 18 and 65 years by NIMHANS suggests that women are more susceptible to experience headache than men. Women are twice at risk of a headache than men, and three times at risk of reporting migraine headaches ...... |
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study, which is the first population-based study on prevalence of headache
disorders in India, was carried out in a population of 12,250 people from
Bangalore Urban and Rural districts between April and December 2010. It was
supported by Lifting the Burden: a Global Campaign to Reduce the Burden of
Headache (a collaboration of WHO, World Headache Alliance, International
Headache Society and Europe Headache Federation).
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UN World Health Organization - WHO
ATLAS OF HEADACHE DISORDERS &
RESOURCES IN THE WORLD 2011
Number
of pages: 72
Publication date: 2011
Languages: English
ISBN: 9789241564212
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- Complete
publication
pdf, 4.31Mb - Executive
summary
pdf, 568kb - Introduction
and methods
pdf, 678kb - Results
pdf, 3.43Mb - The
way forward and references
pdf, 660kb
Overview
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 this common health problem, and reveals the inadequacies of
responses to it in countries throughout the world.