Community-Based Activities of Daily Living Support for Dementia Patients

Estimated counts of people with dementia receiving community support for daily living activities, compiled by the World Health Organization. The dataset provides figures on service coverage for essential care tasks. It is part of the WHO's Global Health Observatory data repository.

Use Cases

• Analyze the relationship between estimated service recipients and country-level health expenditure using WHO region and year columns.
• Model trends in community care uptake over time using the year and estimated count columns.
• Compare support service coverage across different WHO member states using country and indicator columns.

Strengths

• Data originates from the authoritative World Health Organization Global Health Observatory.
• Focuses on a specific, policy-relevant metric for dementia care.

Limitations

• The dataset contains estimated figures, which may be modeled or aggregated, introducing potential uncertainty.
• Specific row count, column details, and temporal coverage are unknown from the provided metadata.

Provenance

Source

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

Geography

Global (WHO member states)