Regional Health Data in the Americas

Disease Elimination Initiative Data

The Elimination Initiative is an innovative policy that promotes an integrated, sustainable approach to accelerate progress towards elimination of more than 30 communicable diseases in the Region of the Americas.

• Elimination Initiative portal

The next dashboard has an interactive format makes it easy to explore 29 indicators organized into the Initiative’s four lines of action.

• Dashboard on progress toward cross-cutting indicator targets

Core Indicators

This is an interactive portal that presents more than 140 health and health-related indicators with data from 1995 to the present, including disaggregation by age, sex, urban-rural distribution and more. It gives crucial information on the health situation and trends at the country, subregional and regional levels. 

• Rede Interagencial de Informações para a Saúde (Ripsa) (Portuguese only)

Health in the Americas

Health in the Americas Portal provides comprehensive and up-to-date information on health conditions, determinants, and trends in the Americas. The new portal centralizes access to all information published in Health in the Americas. It includes interactive tools that allow users to explore data and compare information across countries and subregions.

• Accelerating Disease Elimination
• Overview of the Region of the Americas in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic
• Health in the Americas 2021: Potentially avoidable premature mortality (PAPM)
• Country Profiles

ENLACE: Non-communicable Diseases

The "ENLACE" portal is a comprehensive source of data on Non-Communicable Diseases and Mental Health in the Region of the Americas. It provides information about various diseases (cardiovascular, cancer, diabetes, COPD, kidney disease), their burden of disease, their risk factors (tobacco, alcohol, insufficient physical activity, hipertension, obesity, anemia, etc.) and mortality (Homicide, violence, road traffic, suicide, falls), allowing users to explore interactive visualizations.

Influenza, COVID-19 and Respiratory Viruses

Also includes SARS-CoV-2 and Respiratory Syncitial Virus (RSV):

• Influenza Situation - Region of the Americas
• COVID-19, SARS CoV2 Situation - Region of the Americas
• Respiratory Syncitial Virus (RSV) Situation - Region of the Americas

Communicable Diseases

• OROV Oropouche fever
• Dengue Indicators
• Tuberculosis data in the Americas
• Regional Information System for Epidemiological Surveillance for Rabies (SIRVERA)
• Chikungunya data
• Leishmaniasis data
• Malaria data
• Meningococcus data
• Antimicrobial resistance data
• Zika data

Public Health Signals and Events Monitoring

• Public health signals and events – Region of the Americas
• Epidemiological Alerts and Updates
• PAHO Health Emergencies Interactive Atlas
• Natural Hazards and Public Health Emergencies Geo-HUB
• El Niño Southern Oscillation Related Alerts Dashboard
• Cholera resurgence in Hispaniola
• Major Emergencies Response

Sustainable Development Goals 3

The SDG3 Portal is an important tool for monitoring progress towards Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages. It is a one-stop shop for data collection, analysis and evidence, offering valuable support to governments and organization for informed decision-making towards achieving the set targets.

• WHO: Monitoring health for the SDGs (Sólo en inglés)
• WHO: SDG Target 3.8 | Achieve universal health coverage (UHC)

Immunization Data and Statistics

Provides information on vaccination coverage in a region, focusing on the DTP3 vaccine against diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis. Through a model based on governance and sustainability, it highlights the importance of monitoring at the subnational level to adapt vaccination strategies.

• Vaccine Safety
• Pharmacovigilance for COVID-19 vaccines

Health Services

• Dashboard of Indicators for Health Systems Based on Primary Health Care
• Healthy Aging: Data and Visualizations
• Health and Migration in the Americas: Information Platform
• External Funding Operations to Health Systems Dashboard

Environmental Determinants of Health

Five key Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda address the environmental determinants of health and contribute directly and indirectly to SDG 3 focused on health. These SDGs address the issues of water, sanitation and hygiene, air quality, chemical safety, and climate action.

• Climate Change and Health

World Health Organization Data

• World Health Data Hub
• The Global Health Observatory
• Triple Billion Progress
• Global Health Estimates
• World Health Statistics
• Insights and visualizations
• Data collections
• World Mortality database
• Global Observatory on Health R&D
• National Health Workforce Accounts
• SCORE (Survey, Count, Optimize, Review, Enable)
• Health Inequality Monitor
• WHO GIS Centre for Health
• Geolocated Health Facilities Data initiative
• Map Gallery