The Health Data Atlas covers priority health topics, including health financing, human resources, disease burden and risk factors, pharmaceuticals, mortality, health systems, environmental health, violence, and injuries. In addition, it includes data on health-related Millennium Development Goals such as child nutrition, child health, maternal and reproductive health, immunization, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, neglected diseases, water, and sanitation.
Topics covered:
- Health Financing
- Human Resources
- Disease Burden
- Risk Factors
- Mortality
Datasets include:
- WHO Global Health Observatory
- WHO National Health Accounts
- World Bank Health Nutrition and Population Statistics
- OECD Health Status
- IHME Global Expected Health Spending
- 20+ others
Please see reference table HEALTH.DATASETS that includes the list of all tables/datasets included in this listing, with key details on each table/dataset including name, source, frequency of refresh, source, documentation on data, etc.
Fields include:
- Health expenditure per capita
- Years of life lost by broader causes
- Mortality rate by cause
- Smoking prevalence
- Healthy life expectancy
Sources include WHO, CDC, IHME, OECD, World Bank, Eurostat, UN, American Cancer Society. Datasets are updated within 1-7 days of the most recent data being made available by the underlying reporter. More detail on each of the datasets, fields, and sources included in the share can be found at the link in our documentation.
Use cases
- Estimating the economic burden of non-communicable diseases
- Estimating the quality of a country’s human resources
- Projecting economic losses due to pandemics