Types of Vivarium components and how to design them

The following subpages describe the different types of Vivarium components we typically encounter and provide guidelines on how to model them in our simulations.

• Understanding GBD’s Disease and Health Categories
• Causes
• Impairments
• Interventions
• Risk Factors
  • Risk exposure
  • Risk Effects
  • Population Attributable Fractions
  • Risk-Attributable Cause Models
  • Risk Correlation
  • Risk factor mediation
  • Residual confounding

To document a new component or an entirely new simulation, you should start with one of the following templates (if applicable), referring to the above pages for more information. The Concept Model Template is the starting point for designing a new Vivarium simulation, whereas the other templates are for discrete components within a simulation.

• Vivarium Model Document Templates
  • Concept Model Template
  • Intervention Model Template
  • Cause Model Template
  • Risk Exposure Model Template
  • Risk Effects Model Template