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Chronic pain epidemiology : from aetiology to public health / edited by Peter Croft, Fiona M. Blyth, and Danielle van der Windt.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chronic pain--Epidemiology.
- Chronic pain.
- Chronic pain--Prevention.
- Chronic pain--Etiology.
- Nervous System Diseases.
- Psychophysiology.
- Medicine.
- Disease.
- Health Occupations.
- Psychological Phenomena.
- Nervous System Physiological Phenomena.
- Pain.
- Chronic Disease.
- Epidemiology.
- Occupations.
- Psychiatry.
- Musculoskeletal and Neural Physiological Phenomena.
- Medical Subjects:
- Nervous System Diseases.
- Psychophysiology.
- Medicine.
- Disease.
- Health Occupations.
- Psychological Phenomena.
- Nervous System Physiological Phenomena.
- Pain.
- Chronic Disease.
- Epidemiology.
- Occupations.
- Psychiatry.
- Musculoskeletal and Neural Physiological Phenomena.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 365 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.
- Summary:
- This text presents individual conditions as examples of chronic pain, together with chapters that provide overviews on the assessment of pain and methodological issues behind population assessment. It provides a framework and basis for thinking about chronic pain and the potential for its prevention in public health terms.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note:
- <strong>Part 1: Basic ideas </strong>1. Chronic pain as a topic for epidemiology and public health, <em>Peter Croft, Fiona Blyth, Danielle van der Windt</em>2. The global occurrence of chronic pain: an introduction, <em>Peter Croft, Fiona Blyth, Danielle van der Windt</em>3. The demography of chronic pain: an overview, <em>Fiona Blyth</em>Appendix to Part 1: Basic epidemiological concepts<strong>Part 2: Definition and measurement of chronic pain for population studies </strong>4. Introduction to part 2, <em>Peter Croft, Kate Dunn, Fiona Blyth, Danielle van der Windt</em>5. Measuring chronic pain in populations, <em>Clermont E. Dionne</em>6. Measuring the impact of chronic pain on populations, <em>Heiner Raspe</em>7. Number of pain sites - a simple measure of population risk?, <em>Bard Natvig, Camilla Ihlebaek, Yusman Kamaleri and Dag Bruusgaard</em><strong>Part 3: Mechanisms </strong>8. The genetics of pain, <em>Alex MacGregor</em>9. The biological response to stress and chronic pain, <em>Anthony KP Jones, John McBeth and Andrea Power</em>10. Musculoskeletal pain complaints from a sex and gender perspective, <em>H Susan J Picavet</em><strong>
- Part 4: Common pain syndromes </strong>11. Introduction to part 412. The symptom of pain in populations, <em>Danielle van der Windt</em>13. Headache, <em>Helen Boardman</em>14. Pain in children, <em>Gareth T Jones and Adriana Paola Botello</em>15. Lifecourse influences on chronic pain in adults, <em>Gary J Macfarlane</em>16. Pain in older people, <em>Elaine Thomas</em><strong>Part 5: Pain and disease </strong>17. Introduction to part 5, <em>Peter Croft</em>18. Neuropathic pain, <em>Blair H. Smith and Nicola Torrance</em>19. Post-surgical pain, <em>Julie Bruce</em>20. Chronic chest pain, myocardial ischaemia and coronary artery disease phenotypes, <em>Harry Hemingway, Justin Zaman and Gene Feder</em>21. Cancer, <em>Fiona Blyth and Frances Boyle</em><strong>Part 6: Public health and chronic pain </strong>22. Introduction to part 6, <em>Fiona Blyth, Danielle van der Windt, Peter Croft</em>23. Pharmacological treatments: the example of osteoarthritis, <em>Weiya Zhang and Michael Doherty</em>24. The potential for prevention: occupation, <em>Gwenllian Wynne-Jones</em>25. The potential for prevention: can we change a population's perspective on pain?, <em>Rachelle Buchbinder</em>26. The potential for prevention: overview, <em>Peter Croft, Danielle van der Windt, Helen Boardman, Fiona Blyth</em>.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9780191594816
- 0191594814
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