happiness-ndanu/Mental-Health

An interactive Shiny app that explores trends in mental health cases across Kenya. This dashboard is designed to inform public health stakeholders, highlight areas with high mental health burden, and support advocacy efforts for improved mental health services. # Mental Health Dashboard – Kenya An interactive Shiny app that explores trends in mental health cases across Kenya. This dashboard is designed to inform public health stakeholders, highlight areas with high mental health burden, and support advocacy efforts for improved mental health services. 🔗 **Live App:** Mental Health Dashboard --- ## 📊 Features - 🧠 Overview of reported mental health cases by year and region - 📍 County-level distribution with interactive maps - 👥 Disaggregation by gender, age category, and case type - 🗓 Time series trends for mental health reporting - 🔍 Filterable dashboard by region, case type, and reporting year --- ## 💡 Why This Dashboard? This app was developed to: - Increase visibility of mental health data trends in Kenya - Provide decision-makers with an easy-to-use analytics tool - Raise awareness on mental health as a public health priority - Serve as a portfolio project demonstrating R and Shiny skills --- ## 🛠️ Built With - R - Shiny - shinydashboard - ggplot2 - plotly - leaflet - dplyr - readr --- ## 🚀 How to Run the App Locally ```r # Clone the repository git clone github.com # Navigate into the folder setwd("MentalHealth") # Run the app shiny::runApp() ``` Author: Happiness Ndanu M - Data Analyst | R Developer | Mental Health Advocate - 📧 happiness.ndanu.m@gmail.com