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Factors Associated With, and Mitigation Strategies for, Health Care Disparities Faced by Patients With Headache
Jessica Kiarashi1, Juliana VanderPluym2, Christina L Szperka2
1From the Department of Neurology and Neurotherapeutics (J.K.), UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX; Department of Neurology (J.V.), Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ; Division of Neurology (C.L.S., M.A.), Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, PA; Departments of Neurology & Pediatrics (C.L.S.), Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Department of Neurology (S.T.), School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham; Departments of Neurology and Population Health (M.T.M.), NYU Langone Health, New York, NY; Department of Neurology (S.B.), Weill Cornell Medical College and New York Presbyterian Hospital, NY; UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital (A.C.R., A.E.W.), University of California, San Francisco; Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology (M.M.), Yeshiva University, Bronx, NY; Department of Neurology (T.S.M.), University of Miami, Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, FL; Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry (N.R.), Zucker School of Medicine and Northwell Health, Manhasset, NY; Orofacial Pain (S.L.M.), Division of Diagnostic Sciences, Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles; Saul R. Korey Department of Neurology (E.S.), Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY; Carolina Headache Institute (A.F.), University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Durham; and Department of Neurology and Ophthalmology (L.C.), Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, East Lansing. jkiarashi@gmail.com.
Objective:
To review contemporary issues of health care disparities in headache medicine with regard to race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status (SES), and geography and propose solutions for addressing these disparities.
Methods:
An Internet and PubMed search was performed and literature was reviewed for key concepts underpinning disparities in headache medicine. Content was refined to areas most salient to our goal of informing the provision of equitable care in headache treatment through discussions with a group of 16 experts from a range of headache subspecialties.
Results:
Taken together, a multitude of factors, including racism, SES, insurance status, and geographical disparities, contribute to the inequities that exist within the health care system when treating headache disorders. Interventions such as improving public education, advocacy, optimizing telemedicine, engaging in community outreach to educate primary care providers, training providers in cultural sensitivity and competence and implicit bias, addressing health literacy, and developing recruitment strategies to increase representation of underserved groups within headache research are proposed as solutions to ameliorate disparities.
Conclusion:
Neurologists have a responsibility to provide and deliver equitable care to all. It is important that disparities in the management of headache disorders are identified and addressed.
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