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Barriers to Care

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This chapter describes the barriers to effective headache care, high everywhere in the world, and in many places insurmountable by the majority of those needing care. It reports on the largely ineffective endeavours of advocacy—for more headache research and better headache care. But it finds, ultimately, glimpses of light and small successes here and there. With new initiatives, doors hitherto closed may be slowly opening.

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  1. Department of Neuromedicine and Movement Science, NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

    Timothy J. Steiner

  2. Division of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London, London, UK

    Timothy J. Steiner

  3. Evangelical Hospital Unna, Unna, Germany

    Zaza Katsarava

  4. Department of Neurology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

    Zaza Katsarava

  5. EVEX Medical Corporation, Tbilisi, Georgia

    Zaza Katsarava

  6. IM Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University), Moscow, Russian Federation

    Zaza Katsarava

  7. Department of Neurology, Danish Headache Centre, University of Copenhagen, Rigshospitalet Glostrup, Glostrup, Denmark

    Jes Olesen

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Steiner, T.J., Katsarava, Z., Olesen, J. (2019). Barriers to Care. In: Steiner, T., Stovner, L. (eds) Societal Impact of Headache. Headache. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24728-7_13

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