healthiar (version 0.2.1)

standardize: Obtain age-standardized health impacts

Description

This function obtains age-standardized health impacts based on multiple age-group specific assessments

Usage

standardize(output_attribute, age_group, ref_prop_pop = NULL)

Value

This function returns a list containing:

1) health_main (tibble) containing the age-standardized main results;

2) health_detailed (tibble) containing the results per age group.

Arguments

output_attribute

List containing the outputs of the healthiar::attribute_health() assessments for each age group (each list element should be an age group-specific assessment).

age_group

String vector with the age groups included in the age standardization. The vector refers to age-dependent data in this function and to output_attribute (if provided).

ref_prop_pop

Numeric vector specifying with the reference proportion of population for each age group. If this argument is empty, the proportion of population by age group in the provided data will be used.

Author

Alberto Castro & Axel Luyten

Examples

# Goal: age-standardize two age group-specific impacts
output_attribute <- attribute_health(
  rr_central = 1.063,
  rr_increment = 10,
  erf_shape = "log_linear",
  cutoff_central =  0,
  age_group = c("below_40", "above_40"),
  exp_central = c(8.1, 10.9),
  bhd_central = c(1000, 4000),
  population = c(100000, 500000)
)
results <- standardize(
  output_attribute = output_attribute,
  age_group = c("below_40", "above_40"),
  ref_prop_pop = c(0.5, 0.5)
)
results$health_detailed$impact_per_100k_inhab # age group-specific impact rate
results$health_main$impact_per_100k_inhab # age-standardized impact rate