Global Occupational Health Workforce Statistics

World Health Organization data on the number of environmental and occupational health and hygiene professionals. The dataset quantifies the global health workforce in this specialized field. It is produced by the WHO Global Health Observatory.

Use Cases

• Analyze the distribution of occupational health professionals across WHO member states using country-level counts.
• Model the relationship between national income levels and the density of hygiene professionals per capita.
• Track temporal trends in the size of the environmental health workforce using year-over-year data.
• Benchmark a country's occupational health staffing levels against regional averages using the provided metrics.

Strengths

• Data originates from the authoritative WHO Global Health Observatory.
• Covers a specialized and critical segment of the global public health workforce.

Limitations

• Specific row count, column details, and temporal coverage are unknown.
• Data may have reporting gaps or inconsistencies across different countries.

Provenance

Source

World Health Organization (WHO) Global Health Observatory (GHO)

Collection Method

Aggregated from national health workforce reporting systems.

Geography

Global, likely by WHO member state or region.