The WHO Global Health Observatory is a large global health data repository that makes available an enormous collection of indicators which can be downloaded through their API. GHOclient is a Python client which helps data scientists search and access their data programmatically.
- Free software: MIT license
- Documentation: https://ghoclient.readthedocs.io.
- Search for indicators by keyword
- Browse available datasets
- List region and country codes
- get the data as pandas Dataframes
For example, to search for health data ona certain topic, like smoking
import ghoclient
ghoclient.index.search('smoking')The above lines will fetch a Dataframe with all indicators containing the word smoking in their description.
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