Historically, and recently, the emphasis in epidemiological and population-health studies characterising and measuring headache-attributable burdens has been on adults.
This Collection, aligning with UN SDG-3 (Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages), aims for a rebalancing. More specifically, it aligns with SDG-3.8 (Achieve universal health coverage..., access to quality essential health-care services and access to safe, effective, quality and affordable essential medicines... for all) by assessing and raising awareness of unmet needs among young people.
The scope of the Collection will embrace estimates from worldwide of headache-attributed burden, studies characterising the headache disorders of childhood and their evolution throughout adolescence (especially longitudinal cohort studies), those providing insights into the diagnostic uncertainties of child and adolescent headache, and those proposing or evaluating systems of care for child and adolescent headache (but not clinical trials of individual treatments).
