The Global Health Security Index: what value does it add?

[...]countries that have better capabilities could be scored lower if the relevant documents were not made available, potentially biasing the results. [...]urbanisation, while certainly posing public health issues, is a subindicator (indicator 6.4.1a). [...]simply by having a more urbanised population alone, a lower score would be given. [...]of particular concern is the tendency towards a simplistic ‘league table’ approach to comparing countries that the visual approach to presenting the GHSI enables. The data collection for each country is impressive and could be used for country-level gap analysis, identifying specific gaps where scores are low in a particular domain.