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healthiar: Quantify and Monetize the Burden of Disease Attributable to Exposure

This R package has been developed with a focus on air pollution and noise but can applied to other exposures. The initial development has been funded by the European Union project BEST-COST. Disclaimer: It is work in progress and the developers are not liable for any calculation errors or inaccuracies resulting from the use of this package. References (in chronological order): WHO (2003a) "Assessing the environmental burden of disease at national and local levels" <https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9241546204> (accessed October 2025); WHO (2003b) "Comparative quantification of health risks: Conceptual framework and methodological issues" <doi:10.1186/1478-7954-1-1> (accessed October 2025); Miller & Hurley (2003) "Life table methods for quantitative impact assessments in chronic mortality" <doi:10.1136/jech.57.3.200> (accessed October 2025); Steenland & Armstrong (2006) "An Overview of Methods for Calculating the Burden of Disease Due to Specific Risk Factors" <doi:10.1097/01.ede.0000229155.05644.43> (accessed October 2025); Miller (2010) "Report on estimation of mortality impacts of particulate air pollution in London" <https://cleanair.london/app/uploads/CAL-098-Mayors-health-study-report-June-2010-1.pdf> (accessed October 2025); WHO (2011) "Burden of disease from environmental noise" <https://iris.who.int/items/723ab97c-5c33-4e3b-8df1-744aa5bc1c27> (accessed October 2025); Jerrett et al. (2013) "Spatial Analysis of Air Pollution and Mortality in California" <doi:10.1164/rccm.201303-0609OC> (accessed October 2025); GBD 2019 Risk Factors Collaborators (2020) "Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019" <doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30752-2> (accessed October 2025); VanderWeele (2019) "Optimal Approximate Conversions of Odds Ratios and Hazard Ratios to Risk Ratios" <doi:10.1111/biom.13197> (accessed October 2025); WHO (2020) "Health impact assessment of air pollution: AirQ+ life table manual" <https://iris.who.int/bitstream/handle/10665/337683/WHO-EURO-2020-1559-41310-56212-eng.pdf?sequence=1> (accessed October 2025); ETC HE (2022) "Health risk assessment of air pollution and the impact of the new WHO guidelines" <https://www.eionet.europa.eu/etcs/all-etc-reports> (accessed October 2025); Kim et al. (2022) "DALY Estimation Approaches: Understanding and Using the Incidence-based Approach and the Prevalence-based Approach" <doi:10.3961/jpmph.21.597> (accessed October 2025); Pozzer et al. (2022) "Mortality Attributable to Ambient Air Pollution: A Review of Global Estimates" <doi:10.1029/2022GH000711> (accessed October 2025); Teaching group in EBM (2022) "Evidence-based medicine research helper" <https://ebm-helper.cn/en/Conv/HR_RR.html> (accessed October 2025).

Version: 0.2.1
Depends: R (≥ 4.2.0)
Imports: dplyr, purrr, tibble, tidyr
Suggests: sf, terra, testthat, devtools, knitr, rmarkdown
Published: 2025-11-11
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.healthiar (may not be active yet)
Author: Alberto Castro ORCID iD [cre, aut], Axel Luyten ORCID iD [aut], Arno Pauwels ORCID iD [ctb], Liliana Vazquez Fernandez ORCID iD [ctb], Vanessa Gorasso ORCID iD [ctb], Carl Michael Baravelli ORCID iD [ctb], Susanne Breitner ORCID iD [ctb], Maria Lepnurm ORCID iD [ctb], Maria Jose Rueda Lopez ORCID iD [ctb], Iracy Pimenta ORCID iD [ctb], Andreia Novais ORCID iD [ctb], Ana Barbosa ORCID iD [ctb], Joao Vasco Santos ORCID iD [ctb], Anette Kocbach Bolling ORCID iD [ctb]
Maintainer: Alberto Castro <alberto.castrofernandez at swisstph.ch>
License: GPL (≥ 3)
NeedsCompilation: no
Citation: healthiar citation info
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: healthiar results

Documentation:

Reference manual: healthiar.html , healthiar.pdf
Vignettes: intro_to_healthiar (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: healthiar_0.2.1.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): healthiar_0.2.1.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): healthiar_0.2.1.tgz, r-release (x86_64): healthiar_0.2.1.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): healthiar_0.2.1.tgz

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