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Global Burden of Disease (GBD)
Modeled global burden estimates for diseases, injuries, risk factors, and summary health metrics.
Dataset summary
- Provider
- Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
- Spatial coverage
- Amazon, East Africa, Southeast Asia
- Temporal coverage
- 1990–2022
- Spatial resolution
- N/A
- Temporal resolution
- Annual
- Formats
- CSV
- Climate variable tags
- Not documented
- Observatory relevance
- Amazon Basin, East Africa, Southeast Asia, North Carolina
Use guidance
- Best for
- Contextual burden estimates and comparative health metrics where modeled estimates are appropriate.
- Not best for
- Raw case data or local surveillance replacement.
- Common pitfalls
- Treating modeled estimates as observed counts.
- Ignoring uncertainty intervals and cause hierarchy definitions.
Variables and notes
- Mortality, disease, risk, DALY
Related learning resources
Use these guides to interpret the variable, scale, format, and workflow choices before using this dataset in a climate-health analysis.