Out-of-pocket expenditure as a percentage of private expenditure on health is a dataset from the World Health Organization's Global Health Observatory. The data likely contains country-level metrics on personal spending for healthcare relative to total private health expenditure. The specific temporal coverage, row count, and column details are not provided in the available metadata.
Use Cases
- Benchmarking country-level financial burden on households for healthcare (inferred from domain, verify after download)
- Modeling the relationship between out-of-pocket spending and health system performance (inferred from domain, verify after download)
- Tracking progress towards universal health coverage and financial risk protection targets (inferred from domain, verify after download)
Strengths
- Published on the WHO Global Health Observatory (who_gho) platform.
- Provided by 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 is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- World Health Organization (WHO)
- Collection Method
- null
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
- Geography
- Global coverage is likely, but specific countries are not confirmed.