Vision, Aims And Mission
Lifting The Burden envisions a future world in which headache disorders are recognized everywhere as real, disabling and deserving of medical care.
In this future world, all who need headache care have access to it without artificial barriers.
Lifting The Burden is:
- a partnership between the World Headache Alliance, the International Headache Society, the European Headache Federation and the World Health Organization.
Lifting The Burden recognizes:
- that headache disorders impose pain and disability on people throughout the world;
- that good health care alleviates these burdens; and
- that these burdens persist worldwide because health systems that should provide this care fail to reach many who need it.
Lifting The Burden aims:
- to raise awareness of these burdens and the associated global public-health imperative; and
- to devise and foster the implementation of health-care solutions to these burdens worldwide.
Lifting The Burden believes:
- that, in a world of scarce resources and competing priorities, the basis of the health-care solution for headache in most parts of the world is education.