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The Financial Costs of Headache

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Previous chapters in this section have described the multiple aspects of headache-attributed burden and methods by which many of these may be quantified. This chapter addresses financial costs as an important component of headache-attributed burden. It explains some principal aspects of the methodology of health economic studies on headache and presents the findings of key studies.

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  1. CEIS Economic Evaluation and HTA (EEHTA), and IGF Department, Faculty of Economics, University “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy

    Francesco Saverio Mennini

  2. Institute for Leadership and Management in Health, Kingston University, Kingston, UK

    Francesco Saverio Mennini

  3. CEIS Economic Evaluation and HTA (EEHTA), Faculty of Economics, University “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy

    Lara Gitto

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  1. Department of Neuromedicine and Movement Science, NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

    Timothy J. Steiner

  2. Department of Neuromedicine and Movement Science, NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

    Lars Jacob Stovner

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Mennini, F.S., Gitto, L. (2019). The Financial Costs of Headache. In: Steiner, T., Stovner, L. (eds) Societal Impact of Headache. Headache. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24728-7_12

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