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Global Campaign against Headache
Work impact
A key component of the burden of headache – of enormous socioeconomic and therefore political importance – is the very substantial lost productivity among the workforce affected by headache. Work impact studies will provide direct empirical evidence of this.
Later interventional studies may then show that effective treatment of headache actually does get people back to work and recover at least some of this lost productivity. Health policy-makers need this evidence that provision of effective healthcare for headache reduces indirect costs if they are to be persuaded to invest accordingly.
These studies require productivity assessments, interventions and outcome studies conducted in co-operation with major employers.
Collaborator:
- M Selekler, University of Kocaeli, Kocaeli, Turkey