healthbR: Access Brazilian Public Health Data

2026 Dataset

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Authors: Sidney da Silva Pereira Bissoli
DOI: 10.32614/cran.package.healthbr
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Abstract

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), SIM (Mortality Information System), SINASC (Live Birth Information System), and other health information systems. Data is downloaded from the Brazilian Ministry of Health VIGITEL repository . Data is returned in tidy format following tidyverse conventions.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Data Analysis with R Data-Driven Disease Surveillance Research Data Management Practices

Publication details

Publication date
3 February 2026
Document type
Dataset