Tens of millions living with invisible headache head every day. Migraine, headache, post-traumatic headche and 200 more headache stays affect lives without leaving finding wounds.
I am one of 40 million, and I assure you more than “headache only.”
Migraine makes how I work, parents, navigates daily routines and plans. I need to forget important moments and adapt my life to a constant uncertainty. Now, I look at my son who struggles with it too. Like many children with migraines, he experienced the pain of others who did not see, understand or believe.
Women and children are unstoppable affected by headaches. Migraine is the leading cause of women’s disability in their main years of work. Among the children, it is an important factor of missed school days and visiting the emergency department.
Despite harmful effects, access to specialized treatment is limited. There are fewer than 900 certified headaches in the head across the country, mainly in major cities, leaving places without adequate care. Equal alarming is the minuscule investment in research, receiving no less than 0.2% of the National Institutes of Health Budget, despite the amount of economics.
Considering direct medical expenses and is lost productivity, migraines are accountable to $ 78 billion at the United States annual cost. Employees have lost millions of work days each year in the migraine related to migraine and preensentei (working while working). Migraine contributes to reduced workplace effectiveness and higher expenditures of health care.
It is a healthcare crisis that hides simple sight – and we all pay for it.
Headache (headache headache, access, diagnostic, and reason for careful health) Aim to resolve this issue. It will build a national strategy specific target of headache disorders. This critical law refers to resolve workers’ disabilities, enhance patient access to quality care, encourage early diagnosis, and increasingly increasing investment and training.
This push for headache is driven by a growing national movement led by the alliance with headache disorders. In March, more than 250 advocates from 45 states gathered for our Washington’s annual headache in Washington who promoted meaningful law change.
Adbokasya efforts highlights many priorities, including disposal of the safe step to prevent patients with the patients before their doctors’ treatment approval. In addition, advocates encourage continued support for head centers of heads better, which is important to have post-traumatic diseases, and to protect service research.
The cost of disabling is harmful. Migraine and Headache Disorders deserve the same urgency, innovation and funding allocated to other severe medical conditions like cancer, diabetes or heart disease.
Migraine and headache headache can not be seen, but we do not remain invisible. Join me in support of headache.
Julienne Verdi is the executive director of the alliance with the illian illness of headache and headache headache.
