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Carolina Perez-Ferrer
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Open AccessRelationship between body mass index and residential segregation in large cities of Latin America
Obesity is a global health problem, and its connection with social and environmental factors is well-established. Social factors, such as urban segregation, may impact obesity through various mechanisms, inclu...
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Open AccessAssociation Between Household Deprivation and Living in Informal Settlements and Incidence of Diarrhea in Children Under 5 in Eleven Latin American Cities
Diarrhea is a leading cause of death in children globally, mostly due to inadequate sanitary conditions and overcrowding. Poor housing quality and lack of tenure security that characterize informal settlements...
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Open AccessAgreement between a web collaborative dataset and an administrative dataset to assess the retail food environment in Mexico
Latin American countries are often limited in the availability of food outlet data. There is a need to use online search engines that allow the identification of food outlets and assess their agreement with fi...
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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 AccessLongitudinal association between density of retail food stores and body mass index in Mexican school children and adolescents
Obesity is rapidly increasing in Mexican children and adolescents, while food environments are rapidly changing. We evaluated the association between changes in retail food stores and change in body mass index...
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Open AccessAre Women’s Empowerment and Income Inequality Associated with Excess Weight in Latin American Cities?
While income gradients and gender inequalities in excess weight have been noted elsewhere, data from Latin American cities is lacking. We analyzed gender-specific associations between city-level women’s empowe...
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Open AccessEvaluation of the national sobriety checkpoints program in Mexico: a difference-in-difference approach with variation in timing of program adoption
Up to a third of global road traffic deaths, and one in five in Mexico, are attributable to alcohol. In 2013, Mexico launched a national sobriety checkpoints program designed to reduce drink-driving in munici...
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Building a Methodological Foundation for Impactful Urban Planetary Health Science
Anthropogenic environmental change will heavily impact cities, yet associated health risks will depend significantly on decisions made by urban leaders across a wide range of non-health sectors, including tran...
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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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Open AccessCompliance with nutrition standards in Mexican schools and their effectiveness: a repeated cross-sectional study
Mexico approved mandatory nutrient-based standards for foods sold in schools in 2011. The aim of this study was to analyse the association between compliance with nutrition standards for foods sold in schools ...
