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In mpascariu/MortalityCauses: Life expectancy monitor upscaled in R

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Cause of death changes and their effect on life expectancy

The life expectancy monitoring tool allows the user to selected mortality changes over the entire lifespan or at specific ages, as well as for overall mortality or for specific causes of death. For example, how would life expectancy look if cardiovascular mortality were to be reduced by 50%? Or how would life expectancy look if infant mortality was eliminated? The tool facilitates assessing changes and comparisons in life expectancy under those selected scenarios of mortality change. Furthermore, the tool lets the user compare cause-of-death profiles and life expectancies across time, countries and sexes.

Life expectancy changes in achieving SDG3

The sustainable development goals (SDG) were set in 2015 with many specific targets to be achieved by 2030. The third SDG refers to “Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages” [https://sdgs.un.org/goals/goal3]. The targets of this SDG goal refer to several actions of either eliminating or reducing mortality from certain diseases that are amenable to health interventions. Hence, the possible effects on life expectancy of achieving those mortality reductions and eliminations are highly relevant. The life expectancy monitor tool allows analysts to evaluate countries’ progress in achieving the SDGs as well as assessing possible specific scenarios or targets that a population wishes to achieve.

Updates and news

Monitor Version: 0.15.1

Last Update: "2024-01-29 11:17:17 CET"

News in previous versions: - 2024-03-06 - v0.21.0 - Update application and library to GBD2021 data; - 2024-01-16 - v0.15.1 - experiment with a second SDG mode that allows changes in individual causes of death; - 2023-11-15 - v0.14.2 - UI bug fix; - 2023-11-01 - v0.14.1 - Fix bug related under five and maternal mortality data; - 2022-06-02 - v0.13.0 - Include the maternal and neonatal mortality in the SDG section; - 2022-04-26 - v0.12.2 - Develop server side scaling solution, Postgres SQL etc; - 2022-03-17 - v0.11.0 - Add new functionality (bookmarks, reset) and provide a more consistet arrangement of the cod with the ICD classification; - 2022-02-23 - v0.10.0 - Create datatab corresponding to dashboard figures (lifetables, cod distributions and decomposition values); - 2022-02-10 - v0.9.0 - Update database by adding macro-regions; - 2021-12-09 - v0.8.0 - Change the name of the R library from {MortalityCauses} to {lemur} and add dashboard documentation. - 2021-06-03 - v0.4.0 - Important advance in app functionality and figure coordination. - 2021-05-12 - v0.3.0 - Start dashboard development. - 2021-04-08 - v0.2.0 - Add the life expectancy decomposition method. - 2021-03-29 - v0.1.0 - Add the modified life table method. - 2021-03-01 - v0.0.1 - Start of the project implementation.

The source code and the development repository can be found on Github @mpascariu/lemur under the GNU GPLv3 license.

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