WHO-Recommended Healthcare Waste Disposal Practices by Region and Facility

Shafik Senkubuge's dataset shows utilization levels of WHO-recommended healthcare waste disposal practices. The data is structured by HSDP levels, regions, residence, and management status. It was last updated on 2026-05-28 and is available as a 9.5 KB XLS file under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Benchmarking facility compliance with WHO waste guidelines based on reported management status.
• Analyzing regional disparities in healthcare waste disposal practices based on the region variable.
• Comparing waste management utilization across different healthcare system levels (HSDP).
• Investigating correlations between facility residence type (e.g., urban/rural) and waste disposal practices.

Strengths

• Dataset is small (9.5 KB), facilitating quick download and inspection.
• Explicitly focuses on WHO-recommended practices, providing a clear standard for analysis.
• Data is structured by multiple administrative and facility-level dimensions (HSDP, region, residence, management).

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection.

Provenance

Source

Author: Shafik Senkubuge. Platform: figshare.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-28 17:37:12; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Data appears to be organized by regions, but specific geographic coverage is not stated.