flucylraw {mem}

Castilla y Leon influenza standarised rates

Description

This data set contains Influenza Like Illness (ILI) rates, in cases per 100,000 inhabitants collected by the Influenza Surveillance Programme of the Castilla y Leon Health Sentinel Network (CyLHSN) from 2001 to 2008.

Usage

data(flucylraw)

Format

A data frame with 267 observations on 2 variables. Each observation is one surveillance week and rate,

year

a numeric vector - year.

week

a numeric vector - week.

rates

a numeric vector - standarised rates per 100,000 inhabitants.

Details

The Castilla y Leon Health Sentinel Network is a spanish regional influenza surveillance system based upon volunteer health professionals. The Influenza Surveillance Programme consists on a random sample of general practitioners (covering 30,000 population) which collect ILI cases weekly from 40th week (October) to 20th week (May) of the following year to provide estimations of the ILI weekly rate for the entire region.
The data set contains 8 surveillance seasons, from 2001/2002 to 2008/2009.

Source

Influenza Surveillance Programme. Castilla y Leon Health Sentinel Network. Consejeria de Sanidad. Junta de Castilla y Leon 2001-2008.

References

Castilla y Leon Health Sentinel Network Reports (Informes de la Red Centinela Sanitaria de Castilla y Leon).
Influenza Surveillance Programme (Programa de vigilancia de la gripe).
https://www.saludcastillayleon.es/profesionales/es/centinelas

Examples

data(flucylraw)
plot(flucylraw$rates,type="l")