One row per freguesia per health vintage. Keyed on the freguesia rather than
the município because unit varies within a município in five of them —
the reason this cannot live alongside pt_nuts_codes, which is município
grained.
Format
A data.frame with 6518 rows and columns:
- health_vintage
"2022"or"2024".- dtmnfr
6-digit freguesia code, current vintage.
- reg_saude
Região de saúde (2024) or the former ARS (2022).
- scheme
"uls"for 2024,"aces"for 2022 — different concepts, not two names for one thing.- unit
The local unit: a ULS or an ACES.
- unit_municipio
Município-grained approximation of
unit.
Details
Mappings are recorded against the current (2025) freguesia set;
pt_lookup() reaches them from an earlier admin_vintage.
Vintages
"2024"The reform: 5 regiões de saúde on the mainland plus the island services, and ULS (Unidades Locais de Saúde) as the local unit.
"2022"What it superseded: the former ARS, and ACES (Agrupamentos de Centros de Saúde) as the local unit.
unit_municipio is the unit to use for data by município. Units that share
a município are merged into one pseudo-unit, and merging follows chains, so
it can differ from unit even in a município that lies whole in one unit.
For example, ULS São José also covers part of Loures, which merges ULS
Loures-Odivelas with Lisboa's three ULS, and Odivelas gets the merged unit
too. Everywhere else it equals unit.
Examples
table(pt_health_codes$health_vintage, pt_health_codes$scheme)
#>
#> aces uls
#> 2022 3259 0
#> 2024 0 3259