R/read_health_region.R
read_health_region.RdHealth regions are used to guide the the regional and state planning of health services. Macro health regions, in particular, are used to guide the planning of high complexity health services. These services involve larger economics of scale and are concentrated in few municipalities because they are generally more technology intensive, costly and face shortages of specialized professionals. A macro region comprises one or more health regions.
read_health_region(
year = 2013,
macro = FALSE,
simplified = TRUE,
showProgress = TRUE,
cache = TRUE
)Numeric. Year of the data in YYYY format. Defaults to 2013, the
latest available.
Logic. If FALSE (default), the function downloads health
regions data. If TRUE, the function downloads macro regions data.
Logic FALSE or TRUE, indicating whether the function
should return the data set with 'original' spatial resolution or a data set
with 'simplified' geometry. Defaults to TRUE. For spatial analysis and
statistics users should set simplified = FALSE. Borders have been
simplified by removing vertices of borders using st_simplify{sf} preserving
topology with a dTolerance of 100.
Logical. Defaults to TRUE display progress bar.
Logical. Whether the function should read the data cached
locally, which is faster. Defaults to cache = TRUE. By default,
geobr stores data files in a temporary directory that exists only
within each R session. If cache = FALSE, the function will download
the data again and overwrite the local file.
An "sf" "data.frame" object
Other area functions:
read_amazon(),
read_biomes(),
read_capitals(),
read_comparable_areas(),
read_country(),
read_disaster_risk_area(),
read_health_facilities(),
read_immediate_region(),
read_indigenous_land(),
read_intermediate_region(),
read_meso_region(),
read_metro_area(),
read_micro_region(),
read_municipal_seat(),
read_municipality(),
read_neighborhood(),
read_pop_arrangements(),
read_region(),
read_schools(),
read_semiarid(),
read_state(),
read_statistical_grid(),
read_urban_area(),
read_urban_concentrations(),
read_weighting_area()
# Read all health regions for a given year
hr <- read_health_region( year=2013 )
# Read all macro health regions
mhr <- read_health_region( year=2013, macro =TRUE)