Health & COVID-19

The health & COVID-19 thematic module is designed to cover research, public health work, and provision of primary healthcare, all of which draw substantially upon data. The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the importance of reliable, accessible, and trusted health data to enable coordinated action. The governance and reusability of data in the health sector must combine respect for individual privacy rights with a focus on population and patient health. Data can be used to support access to healthcare across the many different healthcare systems of the world.

The health & COVID-19 module will draw on both primary indicators and secondary data sources to assess the the availability of:

  • Vital statistics (primary indicator);
  • Healthcare system capacity data (secondary source);
  • Real-time healthcare system capacity data (primary indicator).

This module also incorporates indicators specifically focused on COVID-19, which assess the availability of:

  • Vaccination data (primary indicator);
  • Testing data (secondary source)

To find out more about the development of this thematic module, you can consult our research handbook.

Health & COVID-19 primary indicators

Vital Statistics Data

To what extent is civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) information available as open data?
Existence
  • Is this data available online in any form?
    • Data is not available online.
    • Data is available, but not as a result of government action.
    • Data is available from government, or because of government actions.
Elements
Data fields and quality (I):
  • The data includes information on data limitations, specifically on the completeness of vital statistics in different provinces, counties, or regions of the country.
    • (No, Partially, Yes)
  • Cause of death is standardized to the International Classification of Causes of Death (ICD) or a related, fully interoperable standard.
    • (No, Partially, Yes)
Data fields and quality (II):
  • Mortality information includes data about age, sex and/or gender, geographic location, and cause of death.
    • (No, Partially, Yes)
  • Birth information includes data about sex and/or assigned gender of child, gestational age, and birth weight.
    • (No, Partially, Yes)
  • Birth information includes data about live-birth order and interval between last and previous live births to mother.
    • (No, Partially, Yes)
  • Birth information includes data about place of occurrence, place of usual residence of mother, and month of occurrence.
    • (No, Partially, Yes)
  • Birth information includes data about place of registration and month of registration.
    • (No, Partially, Yes)
  • Birth information includes data about age, educational attainment, and ethnic and/or national group of mother.
    • (No, Partially, Yes)
  • Birth information includes data about age of father and place of usual residence.
    • (No, Partially, Yes)
  • Birth information includes data about site of delivery, attendant at birth, and month in which prenatal care began.
    • (No, Partially, Yes)
Data openness, timing, and structure:
  • Dataset is available free of charge.
    • (No, Partially, Yes)
  • Data is openly licensed.
    • (No, Partially, Yes)
  • Data is available in all the country’s official or national languages. If the country has no official or national languages, data is available in the major languages of the country.
    • (No, Partially, Yes)
  • There are accessible and open official tools available to help users explore data.
    • (No, Partially , Yes)
  • Data is timely and updated.
    • (No, Partially, Yes)
  • Historical data is available that allows users to track change over time.
    • (No, Partially, Yes)
  • Data is provided in machine-readable format(s).
    • (No, Partially, Yes)
  • The machine-readable dataset is available as a whole.
    • (No, Partially, Yes)
Untitled section
  • This information is missing required data.
  • The availability of this data has been affected by government response to COVID-19.
    • (No, Partially, Yes)
Extent
  • How comprehensive is the data assessed for this question?
    • The data assessed covers one or more localities, but there are many other localities without available data, or with data of a lesser quality.
    • The data assessed covers one or more localities, and is a representative example of the kind of data that can be found for most but not all localities.
    • The data assessed provides national coverage.

Real-time Healthcare System Capacity Data

To what extent is information about the real-time capacity of the healthcare system available as open data?
Existence
  • Is this data available online in any form?
    • Data is not available online.
    • Data is available, but not as a result of government action.
    • Data is available from government, or because of government actions.
Elements
Data fields and quality:
  • The data includes information at the level of facilities.
    • (No, Partially, Yes)
  • The data includes detailed information about the number and availability of regular beds and ICU beds.
    • (No, Partially, Yes)
  • The data includes detailed information about the number and availability of medical devices or supplies, such as ventilators or oxygen cylinders.
    • (No, Partially, Yes)
  • The data includes detailed information about the number, type, and availability of COVID-19 tests.
    • (No, Partially, Yes)
  • The data includes detailed information about the number, type, and availability of COVID-19 vaccines.
    • (No, Partially, Yes)
Data openness, timing, and structure:
  • Dataset is available free of charge.
    • (No, Partially, Yes)
  • Data is openly licensed.
    • (No, Partially, Yes)
  • Data is available in all the country’s official or national languages. If the country has no official or national languages, data is available in the major languages of the country.
    • (No, Partially, Yes)
  • There are accessible and open official tools available to help users explore data.
    • (No, Partially , Yes)
  • Data includes dynamic updates.
    • (No, Partially, Yes)
  • Historical data is available that allows users to track change over time.
    • (No, Partially, Yes)
  • Data is provided in machine-readable format(s).
    • (No, Partially, Yes)
  • The machine-readable dataset is available as a whole.
    • (No, Partially, Yes)
Negative scoring:
  • This information is missing required data.
Extent
  • How comprehensive is the data assessed for this question?
    • The data assessed covers one or more localities, but there are many other localities without available data, or with data of a lesser quality.
    • The data assessed covers one or more localities, and is a representative example of the kind of data that can be found for most but not all localities.
    • The data assessed provides national coverage.

Vaccination Data

To what extent is COVID-19 vaccination information available as open data?
Existence
  • Is this data available online in any form?
    • Data is not available online.
    • Data is available, but not as a result of government action.
    • Data is available from government, or because of government actions.
Elements
Data fields and quality:
  • The data includes specific details on vaccine supply and administration, such as number of doses in possession and of what type, number of doses administered (this may be broken into partial and complete vaccination), and percent of total doses administered.
    • (No, Partially, Yes)
  • The data includes information about the geographic distribution of vaccinations.
    • (No, Partially, Yes)
  • The data includes information about the age of the people who have been vaccinated.
    • (No, Partially, Yes)
  • The data includes information about the sex and/or gender of the people who have been vaccinated.
    • (No, Partially, Yes)
  • The data includes information about the disability status of the people who have been vaccinated.
    • (No, Partially, Yes)
  • The data includes information about membership in a marginalized population among the people who have been vaccinated.
    • (No, Partially, Yes)
  • The data includes information about vaccination for residents of long-term care facilities.
    • (No, Partially, Yes)
  • The data includes information about vaccination for residents of prisons and jails.
    • (No, Partially, Yes)
Data openness, timing, and structure:
  • Dataset is available free of charge.
    • (No, Partially, Yes)
  • Data is openly licensed.
    • (No, Partially, Yes)
  • Data is available in all the country’s official or national languages. If the country has no official or national languages, data is available in the major languages of the country.
    • (No, Partially, Yes)
  • There are accessible and open official tools available to help users explore data.
    • (No, Partially , Yes)
  • Data is timely and updated.
    • (No, Partially, Yes)
  • Historical data is available that allows users to track change over time.
    • (No, Partially, Yes)
  • Data is provided in machine-readable format(s).
    • (No, Partially, Yes)
  • The machine-readable dataset is available as a whole.
    • (No, Partially, Yes)
Negative scoring:
  • This information is missing required data.
Extent
  • How comprehensive is the data assessed for this question?
    • The data assessed covers one or more localities, but there are many other localities without available data, or with data of a lesser quality.
    • The data assessed covers one or more localities, and is a representative example of the kind of data that can be found for most but not all localities.
    • The data assessed provides national coverage.

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Health & COVID-19 secondary indicators

Testing data

Availability (H): Testing data (COVID-19)
Source

Our World in Data: https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-testing

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Data transformation by GDB

-Aggregate daily information on countries

-Score: countries with Observations found > 0, 1 point, countries with Observations found = 0, 0 point

-Match countries

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Healthcare system capacity data

Availability (H): Healthcare system capacity
Source

ODIN: https://odin.opendatawatch.com/

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Data transformation by GDB

-Replace all metrics with 0 if “Data available last 5 years” = 0

-Combine first and second administrative level into 1 Extent (avg possible values: 0, 0.5, 1)

-Rescale openess subscore from 0-5 to 0-3

-Sum values

-Rescale from 0-5 to 0-1

-Replace missing values. Methods: existence and extend regional mode, openness: regional mean.

-Match countries

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