Chronic pain epidemiology: from aetiology to public health

This book provides an invaluable framework and basis for thinking about chronic pain and the potential for its prevention in public health terms. INDICE: Contributors; Section 1: Basic ideas; 1: Peter Croft, Fiona Blyth, and Danielle van der Windt: Chronic pain as a topic for epidemiology and public health; 2: Peter Croft, Fiona Blyth, and Danielle van der Windt: The global occurrence of chronic pain: an introduction; 3: Fiona Blyth: The demography of chronic pain: an overview; Appendix to Section 1: Basic epidemiological concepts applied to pain; Section 2: Definition and measurement of chronic painfor population studies; 4: Peter Croft, Kate Dunn, Fiona Blyth, and Danielle van der Windt: Introduction; 5: Clermont E. Dionne: Measuring chronic pain in populations; 6: Heiner Raspe: Measuring the impact of chronic pain on populations: a narrative review; 7: Bård Natvig, Camilla Ihlebæk, Yusman Kamaleri, andDag Bruusgaard: Number of pain sites - a simple measure of population risk?; Section 3: Mechanisms; 8: Alex MacGregor: The genetic epidemiology of pain; 9:Anthony K.P. Jones, John McBeth, and Andrea Power: The biological response tostress and chronic pain; 10: H. Susan J. Picavet: Musculoskeletal pain complaints from a sex and gender perspective; Section 4: Common pain syndromes; 11: Peter Croft, Fiona Blyth, and Danielle van der Windt: Introduction; 12: Danielle van der Windt: The symptom of pain in populations; 13: Helen Boardman: Headache; 14: Gareth T. Jones and Adriana Paola Botello: Pain in children; 15: Gary J. Macfarlane: Life-course influences on chronic pain in adults; 16: Elaine Thomas: Pain in older people; Section 5: Pain and disease; 17: Peter Croft: Disease-related pain: an introduction; 18: Blair H. Smith and Nicola Torrance: Neuropathic pain; 19: Julie Bruce: Post-surgical pain; 20: Harry Hemingway, Justin Zaman, and Gene Feder: Chronic chest pain, myocardial ischaemia and coronary artery disease phenotypes; 21: Fiona Blyth and Frances Boyle: Cancer and chronic pain; Section 6: Public health and chronic pain; 22: Fiona Blyth, Danielle van der Windt, and Peter Croft: Introduction to chronic pain as a public health problem; 23: Weiya Zhang and Michael Doherty: Pharmacological treatment: the example of osteoarthritis; 24: Gwenllian Wynne-Jones and Chris J. Main: The potential for prevention: occupation; 25: Rachelle Buchbinder: Can we changea population's perspective on pain?; 26: Peter Croft, Danielle van der Windt,Helen Boardman, and Fiona Blyth: The potential for prevention: overview; Index

• ISBN: 978-0-19-923576-6
• Editorial: Oxford University Press
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 365
• Fecha Publicación: 30/09/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés