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By default, Synthea contains demographics, zip codes, providers, names, and costs for the entire United States, post-processed from publicly available files.
You can modify these files or have Synthea use an alternative files by altering the src/main/resources/synthea.properties file:
# Default demographics is every city in the US
generate.demographics.default_file = geography/demographics.csv
generate.geography.zipcodes.default_file = geography/zipcodes.csv
# Default provider files (1 of 10 files)
generate.providers.hospitals.default_file = providers/hospitals.csv
# Default costs, to be used for pricing something that we don't have a specific price for
generate.costs.default_procedure_cost = 500.00
generate.costs.default_medication_cost = 255.00
generate.costs.default_encounter_cost = 125.00
generate.costs.default_immunization_cost = 136.00You can find detailed instructions on each of these file formats on the Synthea Wiki:
- Demographics file contains city-level distributions of Gender, Race, Age, Income, and Education which all play a role in health access, outcomes, and costs. https://github.com/synthetichealth/synthea/wiki/Demographics-for-Other-Areas
- Zip or postal code file contains postal codes and geographic locations (latitude and longitude) for each location. https://github.com/synthetichealth/synthea/wiki/Zip-or-Postal-Codes
- Provider files contains information and locations (latitude and longitude) for each provider location. https://github.com/synthetichealth/synthea/wiki/Provider-Data
- Names file contains language-specific family names and first names by gender. It also contains names suitable for street addresses. https://github.com/synthetichealth/synthea/wiki/Name-Data
- Cost files contain costs for different types of Encounters, Procedures, Medications, and Immunizations. https://github.com/synthetichealth/synthea/wiki/Cost-Data
Districting and addresses in the United Kingdom differ from the United States. In this example, the County is entered in the CTYNAME column and the Region is entered in the STNAME. Let's start with the demographics file:
,COUNTY,NAME,STNAME,POPESTIMATE2015,CTYNAME,TOT_POP,TOT_MALE,TOT_FEMALE,WHITE,HISPANIC,BLACK,ASIAN,NATIVE,OTHER,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,00..10,10..15,15..25,25..35,35..50,50..75,75..100,100..150,150..200,200..999,LESS_THAN_HS,HS_DEGREE,SOME_COLLEGE,BS_DEGREE
1,1,West Midlands,Shropshire,2620,Shrewsbury,486300,0.489,0.511,0.985,0,0.001,0.004,0,0,0.063,0.063,0.063,0.052,0.052,0.052,0.052,0.052,0.076,0.076,0.076,0.076,0.076,0.035,0.035,0.035,0.035,0.035,0.133333333,0.133333333,0.133333333,0.147225,0.147225,0.147225,0.147225,0.1,0.01,0.001,0.18,0.387,22.35,22.35
Next we need to create postal codes suitable to Shrewsbury, so we edit the zip codes file:
,USPS,ST,NAME,ZCTA5,LAT,LON
0,West Midlands,WMS,Shrewsbury,SY1,52.7081,2.7549
0,West Midlands,WMS,Shrewsbury,SY2,52.7083,2.7546
0,West Midlands,WMS,Shrewsbury,SY3,52.7089,2.7543
Finally, we need to provide hospitals for our Salopians, so we edit the hospitals file:
id,name,address,city,state,zip,county,phone,type,ownership,emergency,quality,LAT,LON
0,010001,Royal Shrewsbury Hospital,Mytton Oak Rd,Shrewsbury,WMS,SY3 8XQ,Shropshire,01743261000,NHS Teaching Hospital,Government - Hospital District or Authority,Yes,5,52.7091,-2.7931