Global Burden of Disease by Cause and Income Group¶
Learning Objective¶
Analyze how the composition of disease burden shifts across the epidemiological transition by comparing DALY shares for communicable, non-communicable, and injury causes across income groups and WHO regions.
Specification¶
The full specification is extracted from Chapter 9: Global Health.
Type: microsim
sim-id: gbd-burden-chart
Library: Chart.js
Status: Implemented
Grouped horizontal bar chart showing DALY burden (in millions) by cause category
(communicable diseases, non-communicable diseases, injuries) and World Bank income
group (low income, lower-middle income, upper-middle income, high income). Data
sourced from GBD 2021 estimates. Hovering over any bar segment shows: cause
category name, income group, total DALYs, percentage of total burden, and a
one-sentence interpretation. A dropdown allows toggling between absolute DALYs
and age-standardized DALYs per 100,000 population. A radio button switches the
Y-axis from income group to WHO region. Color scheme: communicable = orange,
NCD = blue, injuries = green. A horizontal reference line shows the global
average for each metric when toggled on. Legend and axis labels clearly explain
the data source and year.