Racial and income inequalities in access to healthcare in Brazilian cities

R code used in the research paper:

• Tomasiello, D. B., Vieira, J. P. B., Parga, J. P. F. A., Servo, L. M. S., & Pereira, R. H. M. (2024). Racial and income inequalities in access to healthcare in Brazilian cities. Journal of Transport & Health, 34, 101722. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jth.2023
  • Ungated PDF of the paper available here.

The R scripts to reproduce the results are divided into four stages:

• 1.0_prepare_data.R
  • Downloads the accessibility data using the aopdata R package
  • Downloads the Mapbox tiles for generating map plots
• 2.0_Fig3.R
  • Generates Figure 3
  • Figure is saved in Figures/
• 2.1_Fig1_2_4.R
  • Generates Figures 1, 2 and 4.
• style.R and colours.R
  • Auxiliary scripts used in 2.1_Fig1_2_4.R to adjust the style and colours of the Figures.