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.
The tool is hosted by the HASS Digital Research Hub (HDRH) at the Australian National University (ANU).
You can install the development version from GitHub with:
# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("mpascariu/lemur")This is a basic example which shows you how to launch the monitor in your browser:
lemur::run_app()
All the simulations done in the monitor can be executed using the R
syntax directly in the R/Rstudio console. See the available data object
data_gbd2021_cod, data_gbd2021_lt or the help pages of relevant
functions like decompose_by_cod(), modify_life_table() and the
related plot_ functions.