Out-of-pocket expenditure as a percentage of total expenditure on health is a dataset from the World Health Organization's Global Health Observatory. The data likely contains metrics on the financial burden of healthcare on individuals across different countries. The specific temporal coverage, row count, and column details 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 burdens over time (inferred from domain, verify after download)
- Modeling the relationship between out-of-pocket spending and other health system indicators (inferred from domain, verify after download)
Strengths
- Published on the WHO Global Health Observatory (who_gho) platform.
- Sourced from the authoritative World Health Organization.
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
- Likely compiled from national health accounts and official country reports.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
- Geography
- Likely contains global or multi-country data, but specific coverage is unknown.