Pain as a global public health priority
Pain as a global public health priority
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DOI：
10.1186/1471-2458-11-770
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发表时间：
2011-10-06
影响因子：
4.5
通讯作者：
McGee, Summer J.
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作者：
Goldberg, Daniel S.;McGee, Summer J.
背景：疼痛是一个全球性的巨大问题。据估计，全球有20%的成年人患有疼痛，每年有10%的人被新诊断为慢性疼痛。然而，疼痛的问题主要被认为是一个医学问题，并已很少被公共health.Discussion领域的解决：尽管疼痛的普遍存在，无论是急性，慢性或间歇性，公共卫生学者和从业人员没有解决这个问题作为一个公共卫生问题。通过公共卫生透镜看待疼痛的重要性使人们能够将疼痛理解为一个多方面的跨学科问题，其中许多原因是健康的社会决定因素。将疼痛作为一个全球公共卫生问题来处理，还将有助于确定优先事项和制定公共卫生政策，以解决这一问题，与大多数其他慢性非传染性疾病一样，这一问题的绝对数量和在地球仪上的不公平分布都在增长。患病率，发病率，全球疼痛造成的巨大社会和健康后果要求公共卫生界对这一问题给予应有的重视。这样做将意味着卫生保健提供者和公共卫生专业人员将对疼痛有更全面的了解，并对这一问题做出适当的公共卫生和社会政策反应。
Background: Pain is an enormous problem globally. Estimates suggest that 20% of adults suffer from pain globally and 10% are newly diagnosed with chronic pain each year. Nevertheless, the problem of pain has primarily been regarded as a medical problem, and has been little addressed by the field of public health.Discussion: Despite the ubiquity of pain, whether acute, chronic or intermittent, public health scholars and practitioners have not addressed this issue as a public health problem. The importance of viewing pain through a public health lens allows one to understand pain as a multifaceted, interdisciplinary problem for which many of the causes are the social determinants of health. Addressing pain as a global public health issue will also aid in priority setting and formulating public health policy to address this problem, which, like most other chronic non-communicable diseases, is growing both in absolute numbers and in its inequitable distribution across the globe.Summary: The prevalence, incidence, and vast social and health consequences of global pain requires that the public health community give due attention to this issue. Doing so will mean that health care providers and public health professionals will have a more comprehensive understanding of pain and the appropriate public health and social policy responses to this problem.