healthbR - Access Brazilian Public Health Data
Provides easy access to Brazilian public health data from
multiple sources including VIGITEL (Surveillance of Risk
Factors for Chronic Diseases by Telephone Survey), PNS
(National Health Survey), 'PNAD' Continua (Continuous National
Household Sample Survey), 'POF' (Household Budget Survey with
food security and consumption data), 'Censo Demografico'
(population denominators via 'SIDRA' API), SIM (Mortality
Information System), SINASC (Live Birth Information System),
'SIH' (Hospital Information System), 'SIA' (Outpatient
Information System), 'SINAN' (Notifiable Diseases
Surveillance), 'CNES' (National Health Facility Registry),
'SI-PNI' (National Immunization Program - aggregated 1994-2019
via FTP, individual-level 'microdata' 2020+ via 'OpenDataSUS'
API), 'SISAB' (Primary Care Health Information System -
coverage indicators via REST API), ANS ('Agencia Nacional de
Saude Suplementar' - supplementary health beneficiaries,
consumer complaints, and financial statements), 'ANVISA'
('Agencia Nacional de Vigilancia Sanitaria' - product
registrations, 'pharmacovigilance', 'hemovigilance',
'technovigilance', and controlled substance sales via 'SNGPC'),
and other health information systems. Data is downloaded from
'DATASUS' (the Ministry of Health's informatics department:
compressed '.dbc' microdata read natively, or the healthbr-data
'Parquet' mirror with per-file provenance) and from 'IBGE'
repositories, and is returned in tidy format following
tidyverse conventions. A vignette compares the package with
'microdatasus' and 'read.dbc' on the 'DATASUS' files they read.
