WHO GLASS National Hospital Surveillance Sites by Country

GLASS, the WHO's Global Antimicrobial Resistance and Use Surveillance System, tracks hospital-based surveillance sites globally. This dataset enumerates the number of national surveillance sites in each country, categorized by hospital type. Data is compiled by the World Health Organization to monitor global health system infrastructure for infectious disease tracking.

Use Cases

• Map the density of surveillance sites per country to identify global coverage gaps for infectious disease monitoring.
• Analyze the distribution of sites by hospital category to understand the types of facilities contributing to the GLASS network.
• Correlate the count of national surveillance sites with country-level health expenditure or disease burden metrics.
• Track changes in the number of reporting sites over time to evaluate the expansion of the WHO GLASS program.

Strengths

• Data originates from the authoritative World Health Organization.
• Focuses on a specific, critical component of the global GLASS surveillance system.

Limitations

• Specific row count, column details, and temporal coverage are unknown.
• Data granularity is at the national level, lacking sub-national or facility-specific identifiers.

Provenance

Source

World Health Organization (WHO)

Collection Method

Compiled from national reports to the GLASS (Global Antimicrobial Resistance and Use Surveillance System) program.

Geography

Global, by country