World Health Organization data on the existence of operational, multisectoral national policies for non-communicable diseases. The dataset likely contains indicators tracking the integration of several NCDs and their risk factors into national health strategies. It is published on the WHO Global Health Observatory platform.
Use Cases
- Benchmarking national NCD policy adoption across countries (inferred from domain, verify after download)
- Analyzing correlations between policy existence and health outcomes (inferred from domain, verify after download)
- Monitoring progress towards global NCD prevention targets (inferred from domain, verify after download)
Strengths
- Published on the WHO Global Health Observatory (who_gho) platform.
- Sourced from the authoritative World Health Organization.
Limitations
- Metadata is minimal; actual content requires verification after download.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count and temporal coverage are unknown.
Provenance
- Source
- World Health Organization (WHO)
- Collection Method
- Likely collected through official country reporting mechanisms or surveys.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
- Geography
- Likely global, covering national-level data.