One Health for Headaches: A Clinical Scientist Residence Project

Paolo Martelletti ()
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Paolo Martelletti: Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, Sapienza University, 00189 Rome, Italy

IJERPH, 2023, vol. 20, issue 6, 1-4

Abstract: Headaches are non-communicable diseases and have a well-perceived stigma and the greatest personal, biopsychosocial, and occupational burden. The focus of biomedical research has brought attention to certain aspects, such as occupational, educational, and health organization impacts, favoring aspects of therapeutic innovation. These aspects are viable in countries with a high gross domestic product but are less so in countries with a low or average level of development, where dedicated health infrastructures, advanced drugs, and even disease awareness and basic education are lacking. Here, we propose the idea of a One Health project that includes headaches, where the patient is not seen as a single unit but as a high user of public health facilities, a low-efficiency worker, and a citizen with a clear social stigma. This hypothesis of the development of a self-assessment tool is based on seven domains, whose results will be offered for validation and evaluation to stakeholders, scientific societies, research groups, and key opinion leaders, in order to provide a framework of the specific needs per area of intervention (awareness, research, and education, etc.), per geographical area.

Keywords: headaches; inter-multidisciplinary; networking; unmet needs; integration; socioeconomic issues; stakeholders; citizens; stigma (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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