Access: Publicly available resource
Description: WHOSIS is a guide to health and health-related epidemiological and statistical information available from the World Health Organization. Contains the following databases:
- Core Health Indicators for 192 countries
- Statistics from WHO Regional Offices
- Statistics by country or region
- Statistics by topic, disease or condition, including HIV/AIDS, drug information, immunization, health personnel, population, micronutrients, alcohol, maternal mortality, etc.
- Burden of Disease statistics - Statistical measures relating to the burden of disease, including Healthy Life Expectancy (HALE); Life Expectancy; Discussion Papers.
- Family of International Classifications - International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10), International Classification of Impairments, Disabilities and Handicaps (ICIDH).
Coverage: Various Dates
Subject(s): Health, Medicine & Psychology Publicly Available Resources
Statistics (numeric data)
Related Databases
Health and Medical Complete Medline ProQuest Medical Library
Related Links
National Center for Health Statistics
POPLINE ** http://db.jhuccp.org/ics-wpd/popweb/expert.html **
World Health Report ** http://www.who.int/whr/en/ **
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