Quantifying and Monetizing Health Impacts Attributable to Exposure
Add meta-information to the data frame containing the input data
Attribute health impacts to an environmental stressor
Attribute premature deaths or YLL to an environmental stressor using a...
Attributabe health impact to an environmental stressor
Create a scenario 2 by modifying an existing scenario 1 and determine ...
Cost-benefit analysis
Check if arguments are identical before stop
Collapse rows by grouping columns
Compare the attributable health impacts between two scenarios
Compile input
Attributable disability-adjusted life years
Discount health impacts
Find joining columns
Find columns with multiple values
Get discount factor
Get population impact over time
Attributable health cases based on relative risk
Get inflation factor
get_input_args
Obtain and store output
Get population attributable fraction
Get population impact fraction
Get population attributable or impact fraction
Calculates reference proportion of population
Get input data and PAF
Get the relative risk of an exposure level
Monetize health impacts
Aggregate health impacts from multiple exposures
Prepare exposure data
Convert multi-year life table to single year life table
Create the BEST-COST Multidimensional Deprivation Index (MDI)
Consider socio-economic aspects in healthiar assessments
Obtain age-standardized health impacts
Get Monte Carlo confidence intervals
Check the input_args data of attribute_master()
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).
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