GR.Hospitals: Greek Hospitals

Description Usage Format Details Source References Examples

Description

Locations of General and Specialised Hospitals in Greece.

Usage

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data("GR.Hospitals")

Format

A data frame with 132 observations on the following 15 variables.

Address

character vector of hospitals' addresses

Name

a character vector of hospitals' names

ID

a integer vector of hospitals' IDs

X

a numeric vector of x coordinates (GGRS87 - Greek Grid)

Y

a numeric vector of y coordinates (GGRS87 - Greek Grid)

Postcode

a numeric vector of the hospitals' postcodes

URL

a character vector of hospitals' websites

DYPE

a integer vector of hospitals' Healthcare Regions

KallCode

a character vector of municipality codes to link with data from the Hellenic Statistical Authority (EL.STAT.)

Dimos

a character vector of municipality names (Greek with latin characters)

Lat

a numeric vector of hospitals' latitudes (WGS84)

Lon

a numeric vector of hospitals' longitudes (WGS84)

Beds15

a integer vector of hospitals' beds in 2015

Patien15

a integer vector of hospitals' admitted patients (hospital discharges) in 2015

Nights15

a numeric vector of in-patients' nights in 2015

Details

The X,Y coordinates (as well as the Lat/Lon coordinates) refer to the exact locations of operating hospitals in the summer 2016. Their identification is the results of registry data, formal hospital addresses, OpenStreetMap (https://www.openstreetmap.org) and Google Maps (https://maps.google.com) including Street View. They have been manually digitised by the author of this package.

Source

The source of the hospital beds, hospital discharges and in-patient nights statistics is the Ministry of Health (http://www.moh.gov.gr/articles/bihealth/stoixeia-noshleytikhs-kinhshs/3865-stoixeia-noshleythentwn-sta-nosokomeia-toy-esy-etoys-2015?dl=1).

References

Kalogirou, S. (2017). Spatial inequality in the accessibility to hospitals in Greece, The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, XLII-4/W2, 91-94, https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-4-W2-91-2017.

Examples

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