Chronic Pain Epidemiology

by Fiona M. Blyth and peter-croft-fiona-m-blyth-danielle-van-der-windt

Book Overview

Chronic pain is a major cause of distress, disability, and work loss, and it is becoming increasingly prevalent through the general move towards an ageing population, which impacts dramatically upon society and health care systems worldwide. Due to improvements in health care, it is becoming more common for patients to continue living with long-term illness or disease (rather than these being terminal). Yet little attention has been paid to chronic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199235767
• ISBN13: 9780199235766
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.8" x 9.7"