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.

Neurology
|June 10, 2021
PubMed
Abstract

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