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WHO Global Health Observatory

byAPI3FreeAirnode v0.1.0

The World Health Organization's Global Health Observatory: mortality, disease burden, immunisation, life expectancy, health systems and the country indicators behind them, as the figures WHO itself publishes rather than a secondary compilation of them. This Airnode wraps its OData API, so a consumer receives what WHO published with a signature saying this Airnode read it at that time.

Everything is organised around an indicator, which is one measured thing such as life expectancy at birth, addressed by a code such as WHOSIS_000001. So a lookup is two calls: find the code in the indicator catalogue, then read its observations, filtered to the countries and years wanted. An observation carries the country, the year, the value and, where WHO published one, the uncertainty interval around it.

Data source: World Health Organization, Global Health Observatory (https://www.who.int/data/gho). WHO provides its datasets under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence unless a dataset says otherwise, and that attribution has to travel with the data. A dataset credited to a source other than WHO is not covered by those terms and permission has to be sought from the source it names. Nothing served here is endorsed by WHO: WHO does not endorse, and is not affiliated with, API3, AirnodeHub, this Airnode or anything derived from what it returns.

Every response carries an EIP-191 signature from the Airnode that served it, so the data can be attributed back to its source rather than trusted on reputation.

Interface

Served at https://airnode-who.fly.dev/. The two requests below are everything the endpoint speaks, and each can be sent from this page. What comes back is verified right here in the browser.

GET /

Returns the machine-readable documentation this page is rendered from. Free, and everything an agent needs.

POST /

Names an operation and its parameters, performs it against the upstream API, and answers with the response and the attestation over it.

Verify the response

Every response is signed by the API that served it. Paste one to check it really came from this listing and was not altered along the way.