30 Global Health Data Exchange (GHDx)
30.3 Description
- World catalog of surveys, censuses, vital statistics, and other health-related data
- Has many data sources as well as data visualizations and interactive maps and county profiles
- One main IHME project is the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study which provides national and state estimates of death, years of life lost, years lived with disabilities, disability-adjusted life years, prevalence, incidence, life expectancy, healthy life expectancy, and maternal mortality ratio
- Other datasets include county-specific mortality rates for infectious disease, substance use, intentional injuries, chronic respiratory disease, cardiovascular disease, cancer as well as overall; life expectancy and age-specific mortality risk; health care and public spending; and county-specific prevalence of alcohol use, diabetes, smoking, physical activity, obesity, and hypertension; other datasets as well.
30.4 Vintage/Release Frequency
Annual since 1990 for GBD. Other data release might vary by country/type.
30.6 Collection Methodology
- Data pulled from a variety of sources. Some of data sources used to build the repository are listed at http://ghdx.healthdata.org/data-sites-we-love
30.7 Available at
US data free for download at http://ghdx.healthdata.org/us-data