In m-allik/SocEpi: Health Inequality Analysis

The SocEpi package was developed social epidemiological analysis of small area data on health outcomes. The core functions calculate standardised rates, SMR and measures of health inequality (SII/RII) for different age groups. It also provides tools for developing deprivation measures that are frequently used to study health inequalities.

Motivation

https://rstudio-pubs-static.s3.amazonaws.com/107181_6b6493a4065d4ec28c5863344c565378.html

Other packages

There are a few other packages for demographic and epidemiological analysis.

I used the search phrases "public health", "health inequalities", "social epidemiology", "epidemiology", "demography", "mortality rate", "mortality" on Metacran https://www.r-pkg.org/ and crantastic! https://crantastic.org/

I also used the sos package search.

I looked at the downloads using package dlstats https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/dlstats/vignettes/dlstats.html

library("ggplot2")
library("dlstats")

x <- cran_stats(c("popEpi", "epiR", "Epi", "epitools"))
head(x)

ggplot(x, aes(end, downloads, group=package, color=package)) +
    geom_line() + geom_point(aes(shape=package))

Function rate in package popEpi will provide standardized rates and the rates can be calculated for one or more different goups (e.g. by area deprivation and/or sex). The standardization is done across all age groups and different data and weights need to be provided if standardization for specifc subset of age groups is needed.

m-allik/SocEpi documentation built on May 23, 2020, 8:02 p.m.