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Who Summary Data

Description

Summary of estimates of healthcare workforce and hospital bed indicators provided by the WHO. Compiled from the GHO, WB, and UNDP datasets.

Usage

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Format

A data frame with 265 rows and 18 variables:

country_name: Country name
country_code: Iso3c codes
who_region: WHO region
income_group: Income group
income_class: Income class
population: Country population
nurses: Absolute number of estimated nurses.
midwives: Absolute number of estimated midwives.
labs: Absolute number of total estimated lab staff.
doctors: Absolute number of estimated doctors.
trad_comp_med: Number of estimated traditional and complementary medical personnel.
chws: Number of estimated community healthcare workers.
pharmacists: Estimated number of pharmacists.
physiotherapists: Estimated number of physiotherapists.
dentists: Estimated absolute number of dentists.
beds_per_1000: Estimated beds per 1,000 people in a country.
perc_icu_beds: Estimated percentage of reported beds allocated to ICU use.
beds_total: Total estimated number of beds in a country.

Details

For healthcare workforce estimates, the average YoY population growth rate was applied to either the latest known number of healthcare workers within a specific category, or the product of the income group average and the population. Similar calculations were performed to estimate the number of beds and percentage of beds allocated to the ICU.