GoettingenHealth2: Healthcare provision in South Lower Saxony

In REAT: Regional Economic Analysis Toolbox

Description

Dataset with districts in two German counties (Goettingen and Northeim) and the corresponding healthcare providers (general practitioners, psychotherapists, pharmacies) and population size

Usage

data("GoettingenHealth2")

Format

A data frame with 420 observations on the following 7 variables.

district

a numeric vector containing the IDs of the district

pop

no. of inhabitants

lat

Latitude

lon

Longitude

phys_gen

no. of general practitioners

psych

no. of psychotherapists

pharm

no. of pharmacies

Source

Wieland T./Dittrich, C. (2016): “Bestands- und Erreichbarkeitsanalyse regionaler Gesundheitseinrichtungen in der Gesundheitsregion Goettingn”. Research report, Georg-August-Universitaet Goeottingen, Geographisches Institut, Abteilung Humangeographie. http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/pub/mon/2016/3-wieland.pdf.

References

Wieland T./Dittrich, C. (2016): “Bestands- und Erreichbarkeitsanalyse regionaler Gesundheitseinrichtungen in der Gesundheitsregion Goettingn”. Research report, Georg-August-Universitaet Goeottingen, Geographisches Institut, Abteilung Humangeographie. http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/pub/mon/2016/3-wieland.pdf.

Examples

data(GoettingenHealth2)
# districts with healthcare providers and population size

williamson((GoettingenHealth2$phys_gen/GoettingenHealth2$pop), 
GoettingenHealth2$pop)

Example output

[1] 1.239988

REAT documentation built on Sept. 5, 2021, 5:18 p.m.