Exploring national health indicators using primary data sources (the Demographic and Health Survey API) and global estimates (the Global Burden of Disease)
This repo supports the article on Data, Science, and Sustainable Development
and corresponding interactive visualization on Heroku: https://sdg-3.herokuapp.com/
There are four data sources queried by src/data
download_DHS- Queries the DHS Program API, which has household survey data from dozens of countriesdownload_GBD- Downloads data from the Institute of Health Metrics (IHME) using internal tools, though this data is also available via the public APIprocess_SDG- Processes data downloaded from IHME's Sustainable Development Goal estimatesquery_GBD_api- Queries the IHME API, which requires a private key (can be requested here)
The final visualization only uses data downloaded from IHME's internal tools.