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read_health_region

Download spatial data of Brazilian health regions and health macro regions

Description

Health 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.

Usage

read_health_region(
  year = 2013,
  macro = FALSE,
  simplified = TRUE,
  showProgress = TRUE
)

Arguments

`year`	Year of the data. Defaults to 2013, latest available.
`macro`	Logic. If `FALSE` (default), the function downloads health regions data. If `TRUE`, the function downloads macro regions data.
`simplified`	Logic `FALSE` or `TRUE`, indicating whether the function returns the data set with original' resolution or a data set with 'simplified' borders. Defaults to `TRUE`. For spatial analysis and statistics users should set `simplified = FALSE`. Borders have been simplified by removing vertices of borders using `sf::st_simplify()` preserving topology with a `dTolerance` of 100.
`showProgress`	Logical. Defaults to `TRUE` display progress bar

Value

An "sf" "data.frame" object

Examples

## Not run:  if (interactive()) {
# 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)
}
## End(Not run)

geobr

Download Official Spatial Data Sets of Brazil

v1.6.1

MIT + file LICENSE

Authors

Rafael H. M. Pereira [aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2125-7465>), Caio Nogueira Goncalves [aut], Paulo Henrique Fernandes de Araujo [ctb], Guilherme Duarte Carvalho [ctb], Rodrigo Almeida de Arruda [ctb], Igor Nascimento [ctb], Barbara Santiago Pedreira da Costa [ctb], Welligtton Silva Cavedo [ctb], Pedro R. Andrade [ctb], Alan da Silva [ctb], Carlos Kauê Vieira Braga [ctb], Carl Schmertmann [ctb], Alessandro Samuel-Rosa [ctb], Daniel Ferreira [ctb], Ipea - Institue for Applied Economic Research [cph, fnd]

Initial release

2021-04-15