[Policy Recommendations] Establishing an Integrated Care System for Pain from the Perspectives of People with Lived Experience (March 29, 2024)
date : 4/2/2024
Tags: Chronic Pain, NCDs
Health and Global Policy Institute (HGPI) Chronic Pain Project sees chronic pain as an important policy issue which affects a wide range of patients and citizens and is working to strengthen countermeasures against it. Based on suggestions obtained from the project’s activities to date, we have compiled a policy recommendations entitled “Establishing an integrated care system for pain from the perspectives of people with lived experience.”
For more information, please see the PDF file below.
■Overview of the policy recommendations “Establishing an integrated care system for pain from the perspectives of people with lived experience”
Recommendations
An integrated care system for pain should be established, where health and social care are integrated to meet specific needs of individuals suffering from diverse pain conditions
5 perspectives required to establish a comprehensive care system for pain
- Ensuring access to a wide range of evidence-based care options within the communities
- Expanding multidisciplinary pain centers to address complex chronic pain
- Strengthening care navigation in primary care led by familty doctors to promote early and appropriate interventions to multifactorial
- Promoting pain education by establishing pain medicine as one of the medical specialties and by strengthening education for a wide range of health and welfare professionals
- Strengthening the collaboration of diverse multi-stakeholders to promote pain policies
Sponsor (in alphabetical order)
Japan Pain Foundation
National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) Global Health Innovation Policy Program (GHIPP)
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