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Members of G-MUSC work closely with international and national agencies to help develop documents that can be used by countries to advocate for, and help to design services, to meet the needs of residents.
Below we have provided access to some key documents:
Towards a global strategy for improving musculoskeletal health
G-MUSC has commissioned this report to map the current global landscape for the prevention and management of musculoskeletal health. The project identified current gaps, and trends in national health policies and gained consensus from stakeholders including those with lived experience of musculoskeletal conditions. This enabled the development of a blueprint to prioritise musculoskeletal health in eight key areas.
The blueprint was developed with almost 700 stakeholders from 72 countries, representing 116 organisations involved in musculoskeletal health. It is practical and can inform what a global strategic response might look like and how countries can respond to musculoskeletal health in order to arrest the increasing global burden of disability and cost.
Health policy for Integrated Musculoskeletal Health
G-MUSC is please to release the report “Health policies for integrated prevention and management of non-communicable diseases among OECD countries. A systematic content analysis and assessment of integration of musculoskeletal health.“
This report provides a review and analysis of the health policies among OECD countries which are recognised as global leaders in social and economic growth.
WHO: Integrated Care for Older People Guidelines
The WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION developed and launched a strategy called INTEGRATED CARE FOR OLDER PEOPLE (ICOPE) GUIDELINES which provides information on community level interventions to help individuals as they age including recommendations on mobility loss and the risk of falls both of which are critical to the management of musculoskeletal conditions.
WHO Public Health Panorama paper on a system approach to MSK health in the UK
Published in Euro Panorama Volume 4, Issue 3, September 2018
This paper identifies the system approach taken in the UK to promote musculoskeletal health which is now a national priority for Public Health England who are developing a full programme.
Reducing the Global Burden of Musculoskeletal Conditions
Published 1st May 2018 in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization (WHO)
The paper examined the global impact of more than 150 musculoskeletal conditions, including back and neck pain, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis and fractures, and set three priorities for global action.
The paper, ‘Reducing the global burden of musculoskeletal conditions’, also involved researchers from Curtin University, Australia; Royal Cornwall Hospital, UK; Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany, World Health Organisation in Geneva, Switzerland; University of Sydney, University of Toronto, Canada; Lund University, Malmö, Sweden, and the Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, Australia.
Low Back Pain : a call for action
published 28th March 2018 in The Lancet
A collaboration of more than 30 leading experts in countries across the world, including Professor Nadine Foster, Keele University and Professor Martin Underwood, Warwick University, have reviewed the evidence for treatment of low back pain and have published their results in a series of three papers in the Lancet. The papers reference country specific facts and statistics along with patient case studies.
Low back pain : a call for action. Buchbinder R et al; Lancet 2018; 391: 2384–88