The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) is the international standard for describing functioning and disability. In line with the World Health Organization’s (WHO) definition of health, the ICF received approval from all 191 World...
With the inclusion of chronic pain in the new ICD-11 a giant step has been taken. The inclusion of chronic pain conditions in the ICD-11 will increase the recognition of chronic pain as a health problem in its own right and contribute to improved access to adequate...
The lack of qualified physicians to treat chronic pain is a challenge on which the SIP platform also focuses. Over the next 10 years, Francoise Thomas from the French Association Against Pain and a member of Pain Alliance Europe is hoping for more physicians to...
The joint statement has been prepared by the SIP Portugal platform in March 2019 and presents the common position of all those involved and proposes actions to be taken, relevant to pain, in two categories: employment and education. There is a need to develop policies...
On March 20, the Portuguese Social Pain Platform (SIP Portugal) organized a meeting with eight companies from different sectors of activity to present measures that aim to promote the maintenance of work or professional reintegration of the person with chronic pain,...
On 6 March, the Interest Group on Brain, Mind and Pain held a meeting in the European Parliament bringing together patient organisations, institutions and industry to discuss the stigma and discrimination attached to long-term neurological disorders (i.e. migraine,...
