UBC-MDS/dsci_532_group_24

A dashboard for children diseases and mortality in Africa, 1990 - 2015 # Care for African Kids ## Link to deployed app We hope we caught your interest by now! Please check out the latest version of our app, courtesy of Heroku. ## Welcome This document is to provide a brief overview about our project. Please feel free to jump straight to one of the sections below: - Motivation - Description of app - Initial app sketch - Dashboard in action - Link to deployed app - Get involved ## Motivation The ongoing COVID-19 crisis has highlighted some of the drastic consequences arising from inequalities in access to healthcare among nations, ethnicities, and social classes. Although this global crisis has exposed many of the shortcomings of the healthcare systems that exist even in wealthy countries, there are well-documented reports of the need to address preventable child deaths in Africa. Although there has been significant progress in reducing preventable child deaths between 1999 and 2019, 2020 WHO fact sheet on improving children survival and well-being discusses the prevalence of child mortality that persists in Sub-Saharan Africa, which accounts for the highest child mortality rate in the world. For example, in 2019, 86 out of 1000 newborns in The Democratic Republic of the Congo, a nation with 86.79 million people, do not make it to their fifth birthday. In Chad, the number is as high as 117. By contrast, about 99.6% (996 in 1000) of Canadian newborns are still alive when they are five years old. As internal data analysts for an international non-governmental organization (INGO), we are dedicated to using data to understand infant and child mortality across the African continent. We will explore, analyze and present the diseases responsible for infant and child deaths in Africa, and produce a data dashboard for both internal and external use. We believe that our work will inform our organization's leadership about where in Africa we should focus our resources, and what disease-specific measures, e.g. medications and vaccines, we s …