Disability-Adjusted Life Years Attributable to Environmental Factors

A dataset from the World Health Organization (WHO) quantifying the health burden of environmental factors using Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs). The data likely contains estimates of years of healthy life lost due to environmental risks such as air pollution, unsafe water, and climate-related hazards. It is published on the WHO's Global Health Observatory (GHO) platform.

Use Cases

• Estimating the comparative impact of different environmental risk factors on population health (inferred from domain, verify after download)
• Modeling the potential health gains from environmental interventions or policy changes (inferred from domain, verify after download)
• Tracking progress on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) related to health and the environment (inferred from domain, verify after download)

Strengths

• Published on the authoritative WHO Global Health Observatory (GHO) platform.
• Organization is explicitly listed as the World Health Organization (WHO).

Limitations

• Metadata is minimal; actual content, column definitions, and data quality require verification after download.
• Row count, file formats, and last update date are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

World Health Organization (WHO)

Collection Method

Likely contains modeled estimates and statistical aggregations from WHO burden of disease studies.

Time Range

Temporal coverage is unknown.

Freshness

Last updated date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Geography

Spatial coverage is unknown but likely includes global and/or regional estimates.