World Brain Day 2023 - Brain Health and Disability: “Leave no one behind“

The World Health Organization Intersectoral Global Action Plan on Epilepsy and Other Neurological Disorders and the headache revolution: from headache burden to a global action plan for headache disorders

“…It is of importance that an adequate recognition of the comorbidity and multimorbidity profile associated with headaches disorders [22] is considered, since numerous opportunities exist to integrate care pathways and therapies for people with headache disorders and associated conditions, such as mental health and cardiovascular diseases. The likelihood that patients with headache disorders are also patients with other disorders, calls not only for strengthening the efforts of associations and organizations of people with headache disorders but also for fostering their collaboration with other organizations as partners in the implementation of policies for headache disorders.…”

“…Benefits of such an initiative are different and include, among the others, increased productivity, creation of long-term employee loyalty, improved organization reputation. Evidence exists of the huge socioeconomic burden of migraine in the workplace [22,121,122]. Migraine education programs in the workplace, employer sponsored migraine education and management/referral programs, migraine-friendly work environments, headache care access and treatment optimization are strategies that need to be implemented to reduce the overall burden of headache by acting on the environmental risk factors that act on the most burdensome headache disorder and in the context in which it mostly produces its effects [123].…”