NEWS.md

In healthiar: Quantifying and Monetizing Health Impacts Attributable to Exposure

Main changes but not complete list. For this propose see Github commits.

healthiar 0.2.4

• 12 March 2026

Bug Fixes

• Previously, monetize() used the argument inflation_factor for both adjusting discount_rate and increasing value overtime. This has been resolved by introducing a new argument called real_growth_rate. Now, inflation_rate is used exclusively for adjusting discount_rate, while real_growth_rate handles value growth overtime.

Other improvements

• get_discount_factor() previously had inflation_rate as argument. Now, not anymore to keep different concepts separated.
• get_inflation_factor() previously had discount_rate as argument. Now, not anymore to keep different concepts separated.

healthiar 0.2.3

• 19 February 2026

New features

• Using compare() after standardizing results from attribute_health() now works
• For the sub-group analysis, exposure value can be specific for each geo_id_micro AND info column
• The argument social_indicator and geo_id_micro in socialize() can now use tidy data
• monetize() works after compare()
• prepare_exposure() works for gridded population data

Bug Fixes

• Using socialize() and standardize() without ref_prop_pop now works properly
• Now attribute_lifetable() allows all lengths for age group (before, only 100 age categories were allowed)
• The data validation now identifies correctly whether the argument n_years was entered by the user or not

Testing

• 31 additional internal tests

Other improvements

• The argument n_years has no default value anymore in monetize() and discount()
• Error message if monetize() is used after compare() with different year of analysis or baseline health data in the two scenarios (not attributable to policy intervention)
• More complete warning message if absolute risk and cutoff is provided

healthiar 0.2.2

• 08 January 2026

Bug Fixes

• results_raw now stratifies by info arguments

Documentation

• New structure of vignette (by topic instead of by function)
• Amendments in readme file in terms of contents and structure including URL to new healthiar website
• Updated and fixed citation

Testing

• Around 70 additional internal tests for attribute_health()

healthiar 0.2.1

• 06 November 2025

Bug Fixes

• time_horizon did not work in attribute_lifetable()
• population was not summed correct in attribute_lifetable()
• health_detailed in attribute_health() provided a duplicated rows for results by geo_id_micro

Other improvements

• Better sampling in summarize_uncertainty() using RNG and package parallel
• Other changes to comply with with manual review of CRAN

healthiar 0.1.1

• 19 September 2025

Other improvements

• Small changes to comply with with automatic review of CRAN

healthiar 0.1.0

• 19 September 2025 (1st submission to CRAN, automatic review)

New Features

• New function get_inflation_rate()
• New argument in cba(): inflation rate
• geo ids can now have different number of exposure categories

Bug Fixes

• Argument time_horizon was not working

Renamings

• discount_years was renamed to n_years
• inflatoin was renamed to inflation_rate
• attribute_by_sim was renamed to impact_by_sim
• positive_impact was renamed to impact_benefit

Other improvements

• attribute_by_sim_disaggregated is not anymore available as output
• attribute_by_geo_id_micro is not anymore available as output
• Faster performance of summarize_uncertainty()

healthiar 0.0.4

• 01 September 2025

New Features

• New function prepare_lifetable()
• Argument info can have different values
• Argument info also available in monetize()
• Data validation in socialize()

Renamings

• geo_id_disaggregated is now geo_id_micro
• geo_id_aggregated is now geo_id_macro
• output_attribute_1 in attribute_mod() is now output_attribute
• Arguments with suffix _1 and _2 in compare() are now _scen_1 and _scen_2
• Arguments with exposure_ are now exp_
• Arguments with suffix _1 and _2 in multiexpose() are now _exp_1 and _exp_2
• And many other renames in output columns and variables

Other improvements

• More consistent sum of results
• Higher speed because of shorter and/or optimized code in attribute_...() functions

healthiar 0.0.3

• 14 July 2025

New Features

• No lists (vectors) as input for multiple geo units
• Arguments age_group & sex in attribute_health() and attribute_lifetable()
• Detailed results of simulations by geo unit in summarize_uncertainty()
• New structure of input_args

Bug Fixes

• Fixed bug in socialize()
• Fixed bug attribute_lifetable()

Renamings

• Rename: impact_raw is now results_raw
• Rename: listed_output_attribute is now output_attribute

Other improvements

• Higher performance of attribute_()
• Data validation in monetize()
• Data validation in summarize_uncertainty()
• More validation in attribute_...()

healthiar 0.0.2

• 02 June 2025

New Features

• New function standardize()
• Improved and corrected function socialize()
• Expanded usability of summarize_uncertainty()
• Enabled single exposure in absolute risk

Bug Fixes

• Fixed compare() to avoid errors when using erf_eq
• Fixed warning in socialize()
• Fixed bug in prepare_exposure()

Renamings

• Arguments results or output_healthiar become output_attribute
• Internal variable rr_conc (visible in results of attribute functions) becomes rr_at_exp

Other improvements

• Input data validation in compare()
• Warning if cutoff is NULL and 0 as default

healthiar 0.0.1

• 05 May 2025

New Features

• Version number was added
• Columns with health impacts were moved to the front in results

Bug Fixes

• Results for impact per 100k inhab. have been corrected
• Exposure lower than cut-off must result in zero health impact

Renamings

• get_pop_fraction() becomes intern function
• get_mdi() was renamed to prepare_mdi()
• get_multiexposure() was renamed to multiexpose()
• get_daly was renamed to daly()

Other improvements

• Custom warning and error messages are now available in attribute_health()

healthiar documentation built on March 12, 2026, 5:07 p.m.