African National Digital Health Strategy Text Analysis

African national digital health strategies were analyzed via computational text analysis. The dataset contains results from analyzing 13 recent strategy documents from African countries. It was authored by Kimsey Zajac and last updated on 2026-05-19.

Use Cases

• Assessing policy priorities for digital health based on mentions of broad goals like health system strengthening.
• Evaluating the representation of vulnerable groups based on references to women, children, and the elderly.
• Analyzing the specificity of inclusion plans based on mentions of concrete actions or dedicated measures.
• Comparing thematic focus across different national strategies based on identified topical priorities.

Strengths

• Analysis is based on 13 recent national strategy documents.
• The dataset is openly available under a CC-BY-4.0 license.
• The computational text analysis method provides a systematic assessment.

Limitations

• The dataset is very small at 5.5 KB, indicating limited scope.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Computational text analysis of 13 national digital health strategy documents.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-19 17:23:36; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Africa