World Health Organization（WHO）

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Description

Global Health Atlas

The World Bank is the largest single source of development knowledge. The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (OKR) is The World Bank’s official open access repository for its research outputs and knowledge products.
Through the OKR, The World Bank collects, disseminates, and permanently preserves its intellectual output in digital form. The OKR also increases the range of people who can discover and access Bank content—from governments and civil society organizations (CSOs), to students and the general public.
The OKR is built on DSpace and is interoperable with other repositories. It supports optimal discoverability and re- usability of the content by complying with Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) standards. All OKR metadata is exposed through the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) protocol.
By extending and improving access to World Bank research, the World Bank aims to encourage innovation and allow anyone in the world to use Bank knowledge to help improve the lives of those living in poverty.
Since its launch in 2012, millions of publications have been downloaded from the OKR, and nearly half of its users are in developing countries.
(World Health Organization. (2003-2007). WHO | Global Health Atlas. Retrieved June 26, 2015, from http://apps.who.int/globalatlas/default.asp)

WHO Global InfoBase Online

The database contains data from WHO members that is dealing with chronic diseases and their high risk factors.

Global Health Observatory
(GHO)

GHO provides data and analysis of investigation on global health situation. The original “WHOSIS” was upgraded and merged to GHO, which also offers national statistical figures that are 50 key indicators such as mortality rate, incidence of diseases, high risk factors, health service penetration rate and hygiene system, etc.

The database offers statistics about disaster occurred on each country that are categorized according to the states of country. It was found by Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters in Belgium and is subsidized by WHO.