The Atlas, an addition to WHO's Project Atlas, presents the findings of our global enquiry into headache disorders and healthcare resource allocation to headache. It provides the most comprehensive compilation of information on these matters, gathered from over 100 countries.

The facts and figures presented within it illuminate the worldwide neglect of a major cause of public ill-health and reveal the inadequacies of responses to it in countries throughout the world. The Atlas will assist health planners and policy-makers as well as professionals at every level involved in caring for people with headache disorders.

Collaborators:

• T Dua, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
• N Huynh, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada
• P Martelletti, Regional Referral Headache Centre, Saint Andrea Hospital, and Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
• S Saxena, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
• Lord Walton of Detchant, House of Lords, UK