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Progress towards the Triple Billion targets

Leading causes of death and disability

A visual summary of global and regional trends 2000-2019

9 November 2020

Data availability: A visual summary

A visualized overview of data availability in global health.

29 June 2020

The Triple Billion targets: A visual summary of methods to deliver impact

Measurable impact is at the heart of WHO’s plans to transform the future of public health.

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Mortality and Global Health Estimates

The latest available data on causes of death and disability globally, by WHO region and country, by age, sex and by income group.

Triple Billion dashboard

Tracks the progress of WHO countries, regions and partners towards meeting the Triple Billion targets and health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Situation dashboard

Provides the latest data on overall confirmed cases and fatalities as well as cases by country and comparisons by WHO region.

Equity monitoring

Tracks reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health indicators disaggregated by education, economic status, geography and sex.

Coronavirus
(COVID-19) data

The latest data on the COVID-19 global outbreak.

WHO global situation dashboard

Latest situation reports

Confirmed cases

Confirmed deaths

Data reports

WHO releases regular reports on data trends and analysis related to global health.

World Health Statistics

WHO’s annual compilation of key health statistics for its 194 Member States including trends in life expectancy, causes of death and progress towards the health-related Sustainable Development Goals.

Universal Health Coverage

Focuses on the importance of research in achieving universal health coverage for one billion more people by 2023.

Emergency Preparedness

A snapshot of where the world stands in its ability to prevent and contain a global health threat.

Data collection and analysis tools

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Population and health risks

Count
Births, deaths, and causes of death

Optimize
Health services data

Review
Progress and performance

Enable
Data use for policy and action

SCORE

A technical package of five essential interventions with key elements to strengthen country health data and information systems and enable governments to track progress towards the health-related SDGs and national and subnational priorities.

World Health Survey Plus

The World Health Survey Plus (WHS+) is a multi-topic, multi-mode, and multi-platform survey system to address essential data gaps with the flexibility to adapt to countries’ unique data needs and to strengthen surveillance capacity. The WHS+ provides critical data for informed decision making.

WHO Mortality Database

An annual compilation of mortality data by age, sex and cause of death by country reported by Member States from Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) Systems with historical data going back to 1950.

Civil Registration and Vital Statistics

CRVS includes information on milestone events such as births, deaths, marriages and causes of death and produces this information through relevant certificates and compiled vital statistics.

Health Service Data

Regular, reliable data from health facilities and the resource systems that support them are central to ensuring availability and quality of health services.

Geospatial Centre for Health

The WHO Geospatial Centre for Health connects maps, apps, data and people to support rapid public health decision-making.

Dating back to 1854, the seminal work of John Snow illustrates the power of mapping and geographic systems to respond to the cholera outbreak. Using GIS to intersect between spatial representation and public health planning will enable timely and reliable decisions that can save many lives.

WHO has an established history of using GIS and mapping to analyze spatial distribution and risk factor patterns, to identify, prevent and control diseases, and to improve the impact of public health interventions. 15 of the 17 SDGs related to health rely on GIS, for example monitoring air, water quality and sanitation, neglected tropical diseases (malaria, guinea worm, snake bites), Polio, and health emergencies.

WHO / Sebastian Oliel
Governmental health care workers consulting a map of a poor neighbourhood in Salto, where empty containers are a potential breeding site for mosquitoes.

Geospatial analytics

Geospatial analytics is a generic term describing several technologies or methods of computational analysis, and these methods can be implemented to assess risk and study preventative mitigation practices for Public Health. WHO uses key baseline datasets like health facility, catchments areas and others to support these analyses.

Earth observation and remote sensing

These are to acquire and analyze satellite imagery and earth observation data. As an example, the building footprints which are derived using the satellite imagery can help to estimate the spatial population count and check the equitable distribution of health facilities to the target population.

Capacity building

To build the capacity of the member states and partners by building a community of practice and training. Also, to deliver the right tools and technology to support optimal usage of GIS by member states.

Partnership and coordination

To achieve the triple billion targets and SDG indicator monitoring partnership with various national governments, academic institutes, UN agencies and interagency and development partners. We are forming the reference group with international experts to support the centre.

Data standards

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International Classification of Diseases (ICD)

The International Classifications of Diseases, of which ICD-11 is a major update, provides 17 000 diagnostic categories, over 100 000 medical diagnostic index terms and is usable online or offline.

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International Classification of Health Interventions (ICHI)

The International Classification of Health Interventions provides a common tool for reporting and analyzing health interventions for statistical, quality and reimbursement purposes.

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International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF)

The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) assesses the overall functioning of an individual and aggregates data captured at the population level.

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