humaniverse / DEPAHRI

Digital Exclusion and Physical Access to Healthcare Risk Index
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Building the DEPAHRI #1

Closed MatteoLarrode closed 11 months ago

MatteoLarrode commented 12 months ago

Progress on the DEPAHRI package

1. Created calculate_score()function

Takes an indicator vector as input, and returns a vector of scores calculated using DERI methodology

2. Created england_lsoa_depahri

Dataset includes:

DEPAHRI score have been calculated using equal weighting for all the components (25%) because the components of the DERI can also impact physical access to healthcare (e.g. elderly people may not be able to drive their car, and people in deprived areas might not be able to afford a car).

3. Documented dataset & function