Pain Epidemiology
A special issue of Life (ISSN 2075-1729). This special issue belongs to the section "Epidemiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 14 February 2026 | Viewed by 6
Special Issue Editor
Interests: pain; chronic pain; headache; burnout; problematic usage of the internet; cerebrovascular diseases
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Dear Colleagues,
Pain remains one of the most prevalent and disabling health problems worldwide, with chronic pain alone affecting over 20% of adults globally. The heterogeneity of pain conditions—including neuropathic pain, nociplastic pain, headache, migraine, orofacial pain, and low back pain—presents significant challenges for public health surveillance, diagnosis, treatment, and policy development.
This Special Issue of Life, titled "Pain Epidemiology", seeks to compile high-quality, multidisciplinary research exploring the distribution, determinants, and impact of pain across diverse populations. We welcome original research articles, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and methodological papers that provide insights into the prevalence, incidence, risk factors, comorbidities, and societal burden of various pain conditions.
The goal is to advance understanding of the epidemiological characteristics of chronic and subtype-specific pain and to foster evidence-based approaches to prevention and management.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Population-based studies on the prevalence and burden of chronic pain.
- Epidemiological distinctions between neuropathic and nociplastic pain.
- Global and regional patterns of headache and migraine.
- Risk factor analysis for orofacial and low back pain.
- Sex-, age-, and occupation-related disparities in pain prevalence.
- Longitudinal studies tracking transitions among pain subtypes.
- Pain epidemiology in specific populations (e.g., elderly, adolescents, post-COVID cohorts).
- Methodological advances in pain surveillance and measurement tools.
Dr. Gergely Fehér
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- pain epidemiology
- chronic pain
- neuropathic pain
- nociplastic pain
- headache
- migraine
- orofacial pain
- low back pain
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