This dataset, published by the World Health Organization (WHO), likely contains metrics on government expenditures dedicated to mental health as a share of total government health spending. The data is sourced from the WHO Global Health Observatory (GHO) platform, which aggregates health statistics from member states. The specific temporal coverage, geographic scope, and number of data points are not provided in the available metadata.
Use Cases
- Benchmarking national mental health funding priorities across countries (inferred from domain, verify after download)
- Analyzing trends in the proportion of health budgets allocated to mental health over time (inferred from domain, verify after download)
- Modeling the relationship between mental health spending and health outcomes (inferred from domain, verify after download)
Strengths
- Published on the WHO Global Health Observatory (GHO) platform, an authoritative source for global health data.
- Organization is the World Health Organization (WHO).
Limitations
- Metadata is minimal; actual content requires verification after download.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count, time range, and geographic coverage are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- World Health Organization (WHO)
- Collection Method
- Likely aggregated from official government reports and submissions to WHO.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- Last updated date is unknown; freshness unverified.
- Geography
- Likely global, but specific coverage is unknown.