GoettingenHealth2 {REAT}

Healthcare provision in South Lower Saxony

Description

Dataset with districts in two German counties (Goettingen and Northeim) and the corresponding healthcare providers (general practitioners, psychotherapists, pharmacies) and population size

Usage

data("GoettingenHealth2")

Format

A data frame with 420 observations on the following 7 variables.

district

a numeric vector containing the IDs of the district

pop

no. of inhabitants

lat

Latitude

lon

Longitude

phys_gen

no. of general practitioners

psych

no. of psychotherapists

pharm

no. of pharmacies

Source

Wieland T./Dittrich, C. (2016): “Bestands- und Erreichbarkeitsanalyse regionaler Gesundheitseinrichtungen in der Gesundheitsregion Goettingn”. Research report, Georg-August-Universitaet Goeottingen, Geographisches Institut, Abteilung Humangeographie. http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/pub/mon/2016/3-wieland.pdf.

References

Wieland T./Dittrich, C. (2016): “Bestands- und Erreichbarkeitsanalyse regionaler Gesundheitseinrichtungen in der Gesundheitsregion Goettingn”. Research report, Georg-August-Universitaet Goeottingen, Geographisches Institut, Abteilung Humangeographie. http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/pub/mon/2016/3-wieland.pdf.

Examples

data(GoettingenHealth2)
# districts with healthcare providers and population size

williamson((GoettingenHealth2$phys_gen/GoettingenHealth2$pop), 
GoettingenHealth2$pop)