Public Health Question

Select a random country. You can use the following website. https://random.country/

Then, access https://vizhub.healthdata.org/gbd-compare/

Review, explore.

Include and reference 1-4 visualizations to underscore your point (copy-paste)

Use appropriate and referenced citations to external literature as needed.

Disclose any use of LLMs at the beginning of your essay (how/to what extent did you use/for what tasks)

Your essay should respond to the following questions:

1. What are the top environmental risk factors today? How is this different from 30 years ago?  

What would you anticipate being the top environmental risk factors in the next 30 years? Why?

• 2. Suppose you lead the Ministry of Health. What environmental risk factor do you focus your resources on? Why?
• To address this environmental risk factor, what environmental exposure do you need measure to identify suitable strategies / policies / interventions to reduce the associated burden of disease? Of course, you may need to measure many things! Just choose one and justify.
• For useful background, you are strongly encouraged to be able to answer the following questions (for your country):

What are the primary causes of morbidity and mortality?

What are the primary risk factors for morbidity and mortality?

How do these differ by age? By urban vs. rural?

• How have these factors changed over time?