who_mortality: Use WHO Mortality Rate

In heemod: Markov Models for Health Economic Evaluations

Use WHO Mortality Rate

Description

Returns age and sex-specific mortality probabilities for a given region

Usage

get_who_mr(age, sex = NULL, region = NULL, year = "latest")

Arguments

age	age as a continuous variable.
sex	sex as "FMLE"-"MLE", 0-1 (male = 0, female = 1) or 1-2 (male = 1, female = 2).
region	Region code.
year	Use data from that year. Defaults to "latest".

Details

Only locally cached data are available. For memory space reasons local data is only available for WHO high-income countries (pooled), and only for the latest year.

Value

This function should be used within define_transition() or define_parameters().

Examples

define_transition(
  C, get_who_mr(age = 50 + model_time, sex = "FMLE", region = "EUR"),
  0, 1
)

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