Global data on out-of-pocket health expenditure as a percentage of total health spending, published by the World Health Organization (WHO) via its Global Health Observatory (GHO). The dataset likely contains country-level indicators measuring the financial burden of healthcare on households. The specific temporal coverage, update frequency, and detailed column definitions are not provided in the available metadata.
Use Cases
- Benchmarking country-level financial protection in health systems (inferred from domain, verify after download)
- Analyzing trends in household health expenditure burden over time (inferred from domain, verify after download)
- Modeling the relationship between out-of-pocket spending and other health or economic indicators (inferred from domain, verify after download)
Strengths
- Published on the 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.
- Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
Provenance
- Source
- World Health Organization (WHO)
- Collection Method
- null
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Global