Reference: New World Health Organization (WHO) Data Portal to Help Track Progress Towards Universal Health Coverage

From the World Health Organization (WHO):

The portal shows where countries need to improve access to services, and where they need to improve information.
The portal features the latest data on access to health services globally and in each of WHO’s 194 Member States, along with information about equity of access. Next year WHO will add data on the impact that paying for health services has on household finances.
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The portal shows that:

• Less than half of children with suspected pneumonia in low income countries are taken to an appropriate health provider.

• Of the estimated 10.4 million new cases of tuberculosis in 2015, 6.1 million were detected and officially notified in 2015, leaving a gap of 4.3 million.

• High blood pressure affects 1.13 billion people. Over half of the world’s adults with high blood pressure in 2015 lived in Asia. Around 24% of men and 21% of women had uncontrolled blood pressure in 2015.

• About 44% of WHO’s member states report having less than 1 physician per 1000 population. The African Region suffers almost 25% of the global burden of disease but has only 3% of the world’s health workers.

Direct to Universal Health Coverage Data Portal

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