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Open AccessResearch Translation to Promote Urban Health in Latin America: The SALURBAL Experience
In highly urbanized and unequal Latin America, urban health and health equity research are essential to effective policymaking. To ensure the application of relevant and context-specific evidence to efforts to...
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Open AccessTrends in the contribution of greenhouse gas emissions from food and beverage purchases in Mexico: 1989–2020
Assessing the trends in dietary GHGE considering the social patterning is critical for understanding the role that food systems have played and will play in global emissions in countries of the global south. O...
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Open AccessUncovering physical activity trade-offs in transportation policy: A spatial agent-based model of Bogotá, Colombia
Transportation policies can impact health outcomes while simultaneously promoting social equity and environmental sustainability. We developed an agent-based model (ABM) to simulate the impacts of fare subsidi...
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Open AccessSocial inequalities and COVID-19 mortality between neighborhoods of Bariloche city, Argentina
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown how intraurban inequalities are likely to reinforce health and social inequalities. Studies at small area level help to visualize social inequialities hidden in large areas as c...
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Open AccessAuthor Correction: Assessing cohesion and diversity in the collaboration network of the SALURBAL project
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Open AccessGender differences in the association of individual and contextual socioeconomic status with hypertension in 230 Latin American cities from the SALURBAL study: a multilevel analysis
Despite global interest in gender disparities and social determinants of hypertension, research in urban areas and regions with a high prevalence of hypertension, such as Latin America, is very limited.
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Open AccessAssociation of service facilities and amenities with adolescent birth rates in Mexican cities
The association of the built environment and the structural availability of services/amenities with adolescent birth rates (ABR) has been overlooked in Latin America. We investigated the association of the ava...
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Open AccessAssessing cohesion and diversity in the collaboration network of the SALURBAL project
The SALURBAL (Urban Health in Latin America) Project is an interdisciplinary multinational network aimed at generating and disseminating actionable evidence on the drivers of health in cities of Latin America....
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The Impacts of an Urban Cable Car System on Liveability: A Mixed Methods Study in Bogotá, Colombia
Cable cars represent an integral element of urban transport systems designed to connect underserved communities in Latin America. However, evaluations of the liveability impacts of cable cars are scarce. The T...
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Open AccessComparing effects of Euclidean buffers and network buffers on associations between built environment and transport walking: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis
Transport walking has drawn growing interest due to its potential to increase levels of physical activities and reduce reliance on vehicles. While existing studies have compared built environment-health associ...
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Open AccessAging and self-reported health in 114 Latin American cities: gender and socio-economic inequalities
Understanding how urban environments influence people’s health, especially as individuals age, can help identify ways to improve health in the rapidly urbanizing and rapidly aging populations.
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Open AccessCity-level impact of extreme temperatures and mortality in Latin America
Climate change and urbanization are rapidly increasing human exposure to extreme ambient temperatures, yet few studies have examined temperature and mortality in Latin America. We conducted a nonlinear, distri...
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Does Living near Trees and Other Vegetation Affect the Contemporaneous Odds of Asthma Exacerbation among Pediatric Asthma Patients?
Vegetation may influence asthma exacerbation through effects on aeroallergens, localized climates, air pollution, or children’s behaviors and stress levels. We investigated the association between residential ...
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Open AccessUrban Scaling of Health Outcomes: a Sco** Review
Urban scaling is a framework that describes how city-level characteristics scale with variations in city size. This sco** review mapped the existing evidence on the urban scaling of health outcomes to identi...
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Open AccessEducational inequalities, urbanicity and levels of non-communicable diseases risk factors: evaluating trends in Argentina (2005–2013)
We investigated a) whether urbanicity is associated with individual-level non-communicable diseases (NCD) risk factors and whether urbanicity modifies trends over time in risk factors; and (b) whether educatio...
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COVID-19, Ambient Air Pollution, and Environmental Health Inequities in Latin American Cities
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Open AccessUrban social environment and low birth weight in 360 Latin American cities
Using data compiled by the SALURBAL project (Urban Health in Latin America; ‘Salud Urbana en América Latina’) we quantified variability in low birth weight (LBW) across cities in Latin America, and evaluated t...
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Open AccessThe Regeneración Urbana, Calidad de Vida y Salud - RUCAS project: a Chilean multi-methods study to evaluate the impact of urban regeneration on resident health and wellbeing
The available evidence of the health effects of urban regeneration is scarce In Latin America, and there are no studies focused on formal housing that longitudinally evaluate the impact of housing and neighbor...
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Open AccessLife expectancy and mortality in 363 cities of Latin America
The concept of a so-called urban advantage in health ignores the possibility of heterogeneity in health outcomes across cities. Using a harmonized dataset from the SALURBAL project, we describe variability and...
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Determinants of Residential Preferences Related to Built and Social Environments and Concordance between Neighborhood Characteristics and Preferences
We explored associations between residential preferences and sociodemographic characteristics, the concordance between current neighborhood characteristics and residential preferences, and heterogeneity in con...
