This book provides an invaluable framework and basis for thinking about chronic pain and the potential for its prevention in public health terms.

Painâ€"it is the most common complaint presented to physicians. Yet pain is subjectiveâ€"it cannot be measured directly and is difficult to validate. Eval

Chronic pain costs the nation up to $635 billion each year in medical treatment and lost productivity. The 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act requi

Highlights major new accomplishments in such areas as the neurobiology of pain, age-related psychological and cognitive differences in pain perception, and the

Provides a repository of epidemiological information on chronic pain syndromes, reviews the problems and pitfalls in epidemiological studies of pain, and identi