R/sim.doext.R

In danicat/datasus: An Interface for the Brazilian Public Healthcare Datasets (DATASUS)

# sim.doext.R 
# Copyright (C) 2016 Daniela Petruzalek
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#' Provides Access to the Declarations of Death (External Causes) Dataset from the Mortality Information System (SIM).
#'
#' \code{sim.doext} returns a data.frame with a subset of the Declarations of Death - External Causes (DOEXT) dataset
#' 
#' @details
#' The Mortality Information System (SIM) offers health managers, researchers and institutions highly relevant information for defining priorities for disease prevention and control programmes, based on death statement information collected by the State Health Departments. The national Database generated from this information is administered by the Health Surveillance Secretariat in cooperation with DATASUS.
#'
#' The system works through the filling in and collection of a standard document, the Death Statement (Declaration of Death), which is entered onto the system in the states and municipalities. The data collected is of great importance for health surveillance and epidemiological analysis, as well as health and demographical statistics.
#'
#' This system contains data divided in the following categories:
#' 
#' \itemize{
#'  \item DO: Declarations of death  
#'  \item DOFET: Declarations of death (Fetal)  
#'  \item DOEXT: Declarations of death (External Causes)  
#'  \item DOINF: Declarations of death (Children)  
#'  \item DOMAT: Declarations of death (Maternal)
#' }
#' 
#' The \code{sim.*} functions are provided for each available subsystem, for example, \code{sim.dofet}, \code{sim.doext} and so on.
#' 
#' @note
#' DATASUS is the name of the Department of Informatics of the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS) and is resposible for publishing public healthcare data. Besides the DATASUS, the Brazilian National Agency for Supplementary Health (ANS) also uses this file format for its public data. The name DATASUS is also often used to represent the public datasets they provide.
#'
#' Neither this project, nor its author, has any association with the brazilian government.
#' @param years  numeric; one or more years representing the data to be read
#' @param language character; column names in Portuguese ("pt") or English ("en"). Default is "en".
#' @return a data.frame with Brazil's mortality data
#' @keywords datasus
#' @export
#' @author Daniela Petruzalek, \email{daniela.petruzalek@gmail.com}
#' @seealso \code{\link{datasus.init}} \code{\link{read.dbc}}
#' @examples
#'
#' pr10 <- sim.doext(2010)
sim.doext <- function(years, language = datasus.lang()) {
    sim.load("DOEXT", years, language = language)
}