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The Healthcare Solution to Headache

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Societal Impact of Headache

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This chapter builds on Chap. 14, describing structured headache services as the healthcare solution to headache.

Where headache services exist at all, their focus is usually, inappropriately, on specialist care, while compartmentalized divisions between primary and secondary care create multiple inefficiencies. The model described here seeks vertical integration while recognizing that headache services not only must but readily can be delivered for the most part in primary care. It is a cost-effective solution and almost certainly cost-saving in all economies.

Political will is needed for change to happen. This is the greatest challenge.

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Steiner, T.J. et al. (2019). The Healthcare Solution to Headache. In: Steiner, T., Stovner, L. (eds) Societal Impact of Headache. Headache. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24728-7_15

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