REAT (version 1.3.1)

health4:

Description

Dataset containing the 420 subregions in South Lower Saxony (see health2) and the corresponding counts of health service locations (general practitioners, pharmacies, psychotherapists, gynaecologists, all physicians)

Usage

data("health4")

Format

A data frame with 420 observations on the following 6 variables.

region

a numeric vector containing the region ID

phys_gen

a numeric vector containing the number of general practitioners

phys_gyn

a numeric vector containing the number of gynaecologists

psych

a numeric vector containing the number of psychotherapists

phys_all

a numeric vector containing the number of all physicians

pharm

a numeric vector containing the number of pharmacies

References

Wieland, T./Dittrich, C. (2016): “Bestands- und Erreichbarkeitsanalyse regionaler Gesundheitseinrichtungen in der Gesundheitsregion Goettingen”. Projektbericht. Goettingen : GOEDOC, Dokumenten- und Publikationsserver der Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen. http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/pub/mon/2016/3-wieland.pdf

Examples

# Spatial concentration of health service locations and population:
data(health2)
# Population data
data(health4)
# Health service location data
gini(health2$pop)
# Gini coefficient for population
gini(health4$phys_gen)
# Gini coefficient for general practitioners
gini(health4$phys_gyn)
# Gini coefficient for gynaecologists
gini(health4$psych)
# Gini coefficient for psychotherapists
gini(health4$pharm)
# Gini coefficient for pharmacies