Improving immunization coverage and equity - technical resources
Comparing Resources
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| Resource | Global Health Data Exchange |
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| Purpose | The Global Health Data Exchange (GHDx) provides rigorous and comparable measurement of the world's most important health problems and evaluates the strategies used to address them. |
| Content | Allows to browse data along actual datasets. Provides information on the global burden of diseases (globally, regionally, by country and by region). Provides country datasets for the burden of disease and access to health, as well demographic data. The EPI visualisation site provides information on VPD disease prevalence and excess mortality (maps, trends). The Global Burden of Diseases component allows the user to explore estimates on causes of death, risks, population estimates, fertility estimates and life tables. Measures deaths, years of life lost (YLLs), years lived with disability (YLDs), disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), prevalence, incidence, life expectancy, healthy life expectancy (HALE), maternal mortality ratio (MMR) and summary exposure value (SEV). The years available are 1990-2019, includes annual results for all measures disaggregated by sex. It allows visualisation of vaccine coverage and vaccine preventable disease burden. The limitation is that data comes from different sources, and the estimates rely on assumptions. |
| Use | Does not require user input. Database, so the user needs to select the desired information. |
| Contraints/Limitations | The Global Burden of Disease numbers are estimates, and thus dependent on the underlying assumptions; not very clear what the assumptions are. |
| Example criteria this resource could address | Quantitative data extracted on deaths, DALYs, YLDs, disease burden, etc. |
| If available, notes on the development process | Since the release of Global Burden of Disease in 2015, the GBD study has been aligned with the suggestions outlined in the Guidelines for Accurate and Transparent Health Estimates (GATHER) statement. Meaning data inputs, analyses and methods, and results on which the estimates are based are documented. |
| Additional Links | |
| Link to access the resource | /en/component/content/article/global-health-data-exchange?catid=665&Itemid=101 |