MOOC "Acting against chronic pain"

Chronic pain

Pain, and especially chronic pain, is a health problem that affects the quality of life of anyone who suffers it. More than 7 million adults in Spain (17% of the population) suffer from chronic pain.  It is the primary cause of sick leave in Spain and has a sever effect on health, regardless of the age, sex and family environment of the patient.

MOOC: free online training

This training is a proposal to approach chronic pain – regardless of the type – in a general way to try to ensure that we can manage it in the best possible way and use our own experience to create additional strategies to improve our self-health care, based on scientific evidence.

This course is available on the Coursera platform and has been created by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and the Foundation for Health and Ageing of the UAB with the collaboration of the Grünenthal Foundation.