Get locations of healthcare services in Europe

The dataset contains information on main healthcare services considered to be 'hospitals' by Member States.

Usage

gisco_get_healthcare(
  year = c(2023, 2020),
  cache = TRUE,
  update_cache = FALSE,
  cache_dir = NULL,
  verbose = FALSE,
  country = NULL
)

Source

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/gisco/geodata/basic-services

Arguments

year

Release year of the file. One of "2020", "2023" (default).

cache

logical. Whether to do caching. Default is TRUE. See Caching strategies section in gisco_set_cache_dir().

update_cache

logical. Should the cached file be refreshed?. Default is FALSE. When set to TRUE it would force a new download.

cache_dir

character string. A path to a cache directory. See Caching strategies section in gisco_set_cache_dir().

verbose

logical. If TRUE displays informational messages.

country

Optional. A character vector of country codes. It could be either a vector of country names, a vector of ISO3 country codes or a vector of Eurostat country codes. See also countrycode::countrycode().

Value

A POINT sf object.

Details

Files are distributed on EPSG:4326. Metadata available on https://gisco-services.ec.europa.eu/pub/healthcare/metadata.pdf.

See also

gisco_get_countries()

Other infrastructure: gisco_get_airports(), gisco_get_education()

Author

dieghernan, https://github.com/dieghernan/

Examples

# \donttest{

health_be <- gisco_get_healthcare(country = "Belgium")

# Plot if downloaded
if (inherits(health_be, "sf")) {
  library(ggplot2)
  ggplot(health_be) +
    geom_sf()
}

# }