The HARDSHIP databases: a forthcoming free good from the Global Campaign against Headache

Abstract

In order to pursue its purpose of reducing the global burden of headache, the Global Campaign against Headache has gathered data on headache-attributed burden from countries worldwide. These data, from the individual participants in adult population-based studies and child and adolescent schools-based studies, are being collated in two databases, which will be powerful resources for research and teaching and rich information sources for health policy. Here we briefly describe the structure and content of these databases, and announce the intention to make them available in due course as a free good.