The Headache Health-care Model
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"Health care for headache focuses on the person affected by headache. ... The Global Campaign model leads that person along a critical path to its objective, which is best possible clinical outcome."
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Health care for headache focuses on the person affected by headache, in whatever locality in the world he or she may be.
The Global Campaign health-care model, encompasses the headache services organizational model. Properly implemented, it will lead that person along a critical path (in project-management terminology) to its objective, which is best possible clinical outcome.
Structured services
Structured 3-tier services according to Lifting The Burden's headache services organizational model provide the most effective ... » read more
Education
Educational initiatives, the central pillars of the Global Campaign, are also central to the delivery of effective health care, and the ... » read more
The starting point
For the person affected by headache, the starting point is to seek medical care. To bring this about requires educational programmes ... » read more
Screening
Supporting this action is the introduction of screening initiatives amongst those overly reliant upon self-treatment. With suitable ... » read more
Knowledgeable health-care providers
Little benefit will come from seeking medical care unless the health-care provider is knowledgeable of headache diagnosis and ... » read more
Support
Various support initiatives, particularly management aids, need to be put in place. These assist non-specialist but knowledgeable ... » read more
Medication
The use within these guidelines of appropriate and cost-effective drugs leads towards success in providing care. Misuse of medication ... » read more
Follow-up
Iterative follow-up, with outcome review, is the only way to ensure that best possible outcome is achieved. Validated measures of ... » read more
Adequate resources
None of this will serve any purpose unless the necessary resources can be called upon. Availability of resources depends upon ... » read more
Quality assurance
Service quality must be maintained. For this purpose, it must be measured using validated indices of quality that respect patients' ... » read more