Use WHO Mortality Rate — who_mortality • heemod

Returns age and sex-specific mortality probabilities for a given region

Usage

get_who_mr(age, sex = NULL, region = NULL, year = "latest")

Arguments

age: age as a continuous variable.
sex: sex as "FMLE"-"MLE", 0-1 (male = 0, female = 1) or 1-2 (male = 1, female = 2).
region: Region code.
year: Use data from that year. Defaults to "latest".

Value

This function should be used within define_transition() or define_parameters().

Details

Only locally cached data are available. For memory space reasons local data is only available for WHO high-income countries (pooled), and only for the latest year.

Examples


define_transition(
  C, get_who_mr(age = 50 + model_time, sex = "FMLE", region = "EUR"),
  0, 1
)
#> No named state -> generating names.
#> A transition matrix, 2 states.
#> 
#>   A B                                                              
#> A C get_who_mr(age = 50 + model_time, sex = "FMLE", region = "EUR")
#> B   1