Defeating epilepsy: A global public health commitment

This article points out that defeating epilepsy is a global public health commitment and a new challenge. This is because: epilepsy causes a heavy burden and very high treatment gap; in the field of life sciences and medicine, the 21st century would be the “Century of Brain Science”; a number of nat...

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Autores principales: Saxena, Shekhar, Li, Shichuo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017
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Special Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5719859/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29588944
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/epi4.12010
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description This article points out that defeating epilepsy is a global public health commitment and a new challenge. This is because: epilepsy causes a heavy burden and very high treatment gap; in the field of life sciences and medicine, the 21st century would be the “Century of Brain Science”; a number of national brain research initiatives provide a great opportunity to reveal the secret of epilepsy; the Global Campaign against Epilepsy and the Mental Health Gap Action Programme made great contributions in the epilepsy control work worldwide; the historical WHA68.20 resolution gives great strength to promote defeating epilepsy.
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spelling pubmed-57198592018-03-27 Defeating epilepsy: A global public health commitment Saxena, Shekhar Li, Shichuo Epilepsia Open Special Report This article points out that defeating epilepsy is a global public health commitment and a new challenge. This is because: epilepsy causes a heavy burden and very high treatment gap; in the field of life sciences and medicine, the 21st century would be the “Century of Brain Science”; a number of national brain research initiatives provide a great opportunity to reveal the secret of epilepsy; the Global Campaign against Epilepsy and the Mental Health Gap Action Programme made great contributions in the epilepsy control work worldwide; the historical WHA68.20 resolution gives great strength to promote defeating epilepsy. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017-03-22 /pmc/articles/PMC5719859/ /pubmed/29588944 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/epi4.12010 Text en © 2016 The Authors. Epilepsia Open published by Wiley Periodicals Inc. on behalf of International League Against Epilepsy. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution‐NonCommercial‐NoDerivs (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
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