obcost-package {obcost}

Obesity Cost Database

Description

This database contains necessary data relevant to medical costs on obesity throughout the United States. This database, in form of an R package, could output necessary data frames relevant to obesity costs, where the clients could easily manipulate the output using difference parameters, e.g. relative risks for each illnesses.

So far the functions included in the package are:

• data_load generate the essential four tables that concerns obesity

• data_produce load all critical values in a returned list format

• rel_risk_fun update the relative risks (or the constants) when crucial data needs updating

The database is composed of the following main tables:

• constant Relative risks for a given disease group with a risk factor of obesity.

• obesity_cost_disease Supplementary output with all variables related to individual disease groups in a given state and year.

• obesity_cost_full Complete output with all variables used to make cost calculations, as well as cost calculations in a given state and year.

• obesity_cost_national_summary National summary cost calculations in a given year.

• full_data Necessary raw data for generating new tables with user input

This package contributes to parts of our published journal named "Modeling the Economic Cost of Obesity Risk and Its Relation to the Health Insurance Premium in the United States: A State Level Analysis" Please use the following citation for the journal: Woods Thomas, Tatjana Miljkovic. 2022. Modeling the Economic Cost of Obesity Risk and Its Relation to the Health Insurance Premium in the United States: A State Level Analysis. Risks 10: 197. <doi:10.3390/risks10100197>

Package:	obcost
Type:	Package
Version:	0.1.0
Date:	2022-10-23
License:	public
LazyData:	no

Note

Please make sure that packages of dplyr and tidyr is applied

Author(s)

Tianyue Zang ([e-mail])([e-mail]) Thomas Woods, Tatjana Miljkovic

Maintainer: Tianyue Zang ([e-mail])([e-mail])

References

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Employer Costs for Employee Compensation. 2021. Archived News Releases. Available online: www.bls.gov (accessed on 20 July 2021).

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Consumer Price Index. 2021. All Urban Consumers (Current Series). Available online: www.bls.gov (accessed on 21 July 2021).