ev_surveillance: Get Data for "Department of Health: EV Scan's Figures Data"

In XiangdongGu/hkdata:

Description

Hand, foot and mouth disease surveillance data including number of EV71 cases, institutional outbreaks, hospital surveillance and sentinel surveillance.

UPDATE FREQUENCY: WEEKLY

Usage

ev_surveillance(path = ".", keep = FALSE)

Arguments

path	path to save the file
keep	whether to keep the file after read

Format

A data frame with 11 variables.
* 'year': Year
* 'week': Week
* 'from': From (Date)
* 'to': To (Date)
* 'n_ev71': Number of EV71 cases by week
* 'n_hfmd_inst': Number of HFMD institutional outbreaks by week
* 'n_hfmd_hosp_adm': Number of hospital admission episodes of HFMD by week
* 'rate_hfmd_aed': Accident & Emergency Department surveillance of HFMD syndrome group (per 1000 coded cases)
* 'prop_hfmd_ccc_kg': Proportion of child care centres/kindergartens (CCC/KG) with HFMD cases based on HFMD sentinel surveillance at CCC/KG by week
* 'rate_hfmd_pvt_med': Consultation rate for HFMD based on HFMD sentinel surveillance among private medical practitioner clinics by week (per 1000 consultations)
* 'rate_hfmd_gopc': Consultation rate for HFMD based on HFMD sentinel surveillance among General Out-patient Clinics by week (per 1000 consultations)

Details

* Recent data are provisional figures and subject to further revision.

Source

<https://data.gov.hk/en-data/dataset/hk-dh-chpsebcdde-ev-scan>

XiangdongGu/hkdata documentation built on Aug. 3, 2019, 6:18 p.m.