New Health Systems Database
By Chris Albon, June 18th, 2008,
The 20/20 Health Systems Project just launched with a new web-accessible database of health systems statistics:
The Health Systems Database draws data from publicly available and internationally comparable databases. Sources are publications from the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Bank, and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). More recent data may be available from other sources including in-country sources. The user contribution section of this tool is designed to capture and share such information.
Hat tip to the Global Health Policy blog.
Full list of variables in the datasets after the break.
Welcome to War and Health Methodology
By Chris Albon, January 3rd, 2008,
Being that I am a handsome young political scientist studying war and disease, you might believe I gallivant around the world interviewing mountain rebels and Soviet generals. Don’t be fooled (Ok, maybe you weren’t fooled to begin with). Most of my days are spent staring at something like this:
War and Health’s Methodology category is a special section of the blog where I post on the nuts and bolts issues of research (primarily quantitative research). Given that most visitors couldn’t care less about interesting R code or data management, posts in this category do not appear on the homepage or the main RSS feed (but there is a dedicated W&H Methods RSS Feed). So, if you are interesting in R code, survival models, and similar things I encourage you to subscribe to the W&H Methods feed. If not, enjoy the rest of the blog.