The Global Campaign (GC) to Reduce the Burden of Headache Worldwide. The International Team for Specialist Education (ITSE)

Abstract

The social perception of headache,

Acute migraine in the Emergency Department: extending European principles of management

“…Required modifications are not great, but their implementation depends upon acceptance in this environment of the principles themselves. This is an objective of the Working Group for Specialist Education within WHO's Global Campaign to Reduce the Burden of Headache Worldwide (Lifting The Burden) [82]. Table 6 Specific anti-migraine drugs, formulations and doses available for step two of acute migraine treatment Adapted from [17].…”

Editor–in–Chief’s 2006 Report

“…JHP's consolidated and valued Public Health Section expressly supported this GC, a WHO/IHS/EHF/WHA joint venture, which found in JHP a fertile breeding ground and platform for goal sharing [3,4]. Furthermore, the educational initiative included in GC has been fully assimilated and in the future will find a permanent educational space in JHP [5].…”

Framing education on headache disorders into the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010. The European Headache Federation stands ready

“…The Master in Headache Medicine course, held each year for ten years at Sapienza University of Rome, has been endorsed by EHF since the Academic Year 2005-2006, training a large number of specialists from various European countries and many other geographical areas in the world (http://w3.uniroma1.it/headache) [6,7]. This initiative has allowed the creation of a headache cultural chain following the consolidated train-the-trainer method as an achievable foundation for global education [8]. Once trained as headache specialists, physicians will become trainers, offering education in this field to other health-care providers in their own countries.…”