Diarrhoea Disease Burden from Inadequate Sanitation, Global Estimates

Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) quantify the health burden of diarrhoea attributed to inadequate sanitation. This dataset is published by the World Health Organization (WHO) via the GHO platform. The specific temporal and geographical coverage, column details, and data volume require verification after download.

Use Cases

• Estimating the health impact of sanitation interventions (inferred from domain, verify after download)
• Modeling country-level disease burden for comparative risk assessment (inferred from domain, verify after download)
• Tracking progress towards Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) related to water and sanitation (inferred from domain, verify after download)

Strengths

• Published on the authoritative WHO Global Health Observatory (GHO) platform
• 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, file formats, and last update date are unknown

Provenance

Source

World Health Organization (WHO)

Collection Method

Likely derived from WHO Global Burden of Disease studies and statistical modeling (inferred from platform and title)

Time Range

null

Freshness

Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified

Geography

Likely contains global and/or country-level estimates (inferred from platform tags)