title: Burden of migraine: international perspectives.
abstract: The newly released version of the Global Burden of Disease (GBD 2010) ranks migraine between the most disabling diseases, the first among neurological ones, with a two-fold increase with respect to the previous GBD 2000 version. Almost 3 % of worldwide disability attributable to a specific disease, in terms of years lived with a disability, is due to migraine. The public health impact of migraine and headache disorders is thus a consolidated fact; however, further research is needed to provide stronger recognition of and policy actions for headache disorders in general, and in particular with regard to chronic forms of headache.
authors.affiliation: Neurology Public Health and Disability Unit, Neurological Institute C. Besta IRCCS Foundation, Via Celoria 11, 20133 Milan, Italy. leonardi@istituto-besta.it
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Leonardi
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Raggi
mesh_terms: D017281:Cost of Illness; D014943:Global Health / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D008881:Migraine Disorders / Q000191:economics / Q000453:epidemiology*