Unrelieved Pain: A Crisis
Despite many recent advances in the past 40 years in the understanding of pain mechanisms, and in pain diagnosis and management, considerable gaps in knowledge remain, with chronic pain present in epidemic proportions in most countries. It is often unrelieved and is associated with significant socio...
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Wiley
2011-01-01
|
| Series: | Pain Research and Management |
| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/513423 |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
| _version_ | 1849403836059353088 |
|---|---|
| author | Barry J Sessle |
| author_facet | Barry J Sessle |
| author_sort | Barry J Sessle |
| collection | DOAJ |
| description | Despite many recent advances in the past 40 years in the understanding of pain mechanisms, and in pain diagnosis and management, considerable gaps in knowledge remain, with chronic pain present in epidemic proportions in most countries. It is often unrelieved and is associated with significant socioeconomic burdens. Several opportunities and approaches to address this crisis are identified in the present article. Most crucial is the need to increase pain awareness, enhance pain education, improve access to pain care and increase pain research resources. Given the variability among countries in health care policies and programs, resources and educational programs, many of the approaches and strategies outlined will need to be tailored to each country’s socioeconomic and educational situation. |
| format | Article |
| id | doaj-art-97250c93d1ee4e769091ae50a294f1bd |
| institution | Kabale University |
| issn | 1203-6765 |
| language | English |
| publishDate | 2011-01-01 |
| publisher | Wiley |
| record_format | Article |
| series | Pain Research and Management |
| spelling | doaj-art-97250c93d1ee4e769091ae50a294f1bd2025-08-20T03:37:09ZengWileyPain Research and Management1203-67652011-01-0116641642010.1155/2011/513423Unrelieved Pain: A CrisisBarry J Sessle0Faculties of Dentistry and Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaDespite many recent advances in the past 40 years in the understanding of pain mechanisms, and in pain diagnosis and management, considerable gaps in knowledge remain, with chronic pain present in epidemic proportions in most countries. It is often unrelieved and is associated with significant socioeconomic burdens. Several opportunities and approaches to address this crisis are identified in the present article. Most crucial is the need to increase pain awareness, enhance pain education, improve access to pain care and increase pain research resources. Given the variability among countries in health care policies and programs, resources and educational programs, many of the approaches and strategies outlined will need to be tailored to each country’s socioeconomic and educational situation.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/513423 |
| spellingShingle | Barry J Sessle Unrelieved Pain: A Crisis Pain Research and Management |
| title | Unrelieved Pain: A Crisis |
| title_full | Unrelieved Pain: A Crisis |
| title_fullStr | Unrelieved Pain: A Crisis |
| title_full_unstemmed | Unrelieved Pain: A Crisis |
| title_short | Unrelieved Pain: A Crisis |
| title_sort | unrelieved pain a crisis |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/513423 |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT barryjsessle unrelievedpainacrisis |