BEST-COST is pleased to share that its R package healthiar now has its own website. On the dedicate website, you will find:
- Instructions on how to install the R package,
- Description of the 20 available functions,
- A cheat sheet (2-pager) including a visual overview of and link to the functions,
- A vignette with detailed methodological information and additional examples,
- And more.
healthiar is a calculation tool that can be used by researchers to quantify and monetise the burden of disease attributable to different environmental exposures (including air and noise pollution). By using different calculation pathways and input data, it combines three dimensions – health, monetisation, and social aspects – to present a fuller understanding of the socioeconomic costs resulting from pollution. healthiar can then be used to build a more solid basis for evidence-based policy making, by looking at different socioeconomic factors that influence people’s susceptibility to health impacts from pollution.
