get_country_capacity: Gets country capacity.

In mrc-ide/esft: WHO ESFT Calculations

Gets country capacity.

Description

Gets country capacity.

Usage

get_country_capacity(iso3c = NULL, overrides = list())

Arguments

iso3c	Country code, in iso3c format (in all capital letters)
overrides	a named list of parameter values to use instead of defaults

Value

List of country capacity parameters.

country

Country name

iso3c

Country code, iso3c format

population

Population estimates from the United Nations Development Programme

yoy_growth

Year over year growth of country population

income_group

Income group

n_hcws

Number of HCWs (sum nurses + doctors, from HWFE data)

n_labs

Number of lab staff (from HWFE data)

n_hosp_beds

Est beds per country, from World Bank

perc_beds_crit_covid

Percent beds for ICU patients per country, estimated from World Bank/Imperial College Report

perc_beds_not_covid

Percent beds not allocated to COVID, default = 0.4

perc_beds_sev_covid

Percent beds allocated to severe COVID- cases, 1 - (perc_beds_crit_covid + perc_beds_not_covid)

beds_covid

Number of hospital beds allocated to COVID (num hospital beds * perc allocated to covid)

severe_beds_covid

Number of severe beds allocated to COVID

crit_beds_covid

Number of critical beds allocated to COVID

Source

https://population.un.org/wup/Download/

https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/WHO-2019-nCoV-Tools-Essential_forecasting-2022.1

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.MED.BEDS.ZS

Imperial College, Report 12: The Global Impact of COVID-19 and Strategies for Mitigation and Suppression

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Health-Workforce-Estimator-HWFE-tool-applies-the-WISN-approach-to-caring-for-COVID_fig3_358174845

https://apps.who.int/gho/data/node.main.HWFGRP?lang=en

mrc-ide/esft documentation built on July 31, 2023, 2:30 p.m.