Map of the prevalence of neurological and mental disorders in Latin America from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

The code uses data on prevalence of neurological and mental disorders and maps it onto a map of Latin America. The data is from the Global Burden of Disease 2019 data extraction tool.

Publication status

Published as Figure 1 in the publication:

tbc

Archive description

This repository contains R code and accompanying files:

1. LatinAmericaGBDNeuroMentalIDisordersMap.R - R code that creates the map image
2. IHME-GBD_2019_DATA-7c9bc585-1.csv - data on prevalence of neurological and mental disorders downloaded from the Global Burden of Disease 2019 data extraction tool
3. GBD_citation.txt - citation file included as part of the downloaded data from the Global Burden of Disease 2019 study
4. la_prev_map.png - image generated by the R script

Figure

a) neurological disorders

b) mental disorders