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Is city-level travel time by car associated with individual obesity or diabetes in Latin American cities? Evidence from 178 cities in the SALURBAL project
(Elsevier, 2022)
There is growing evidence that longer travel time by private car poses physical and mental risks. Individual-level obesity and diabetes, two of the main public health challenges in low- and middle-income contexts, could ...
Educational inequalities in obesity: a multilevel analysis of survey data from cities in Latin America
(Cambridge University Press, 2021)
OBJECTIVE: Using newly harmonised individual-level data on health and socio-economic environments in Latin American cities (from the Salud Urbana en America Latina (SALURBAL) study), we assessed the association between ...
Mortality amenable to healthcare in Latin American cities: a cross-sectional study examining between-country variation in amenable mortality and the role of urban metrics
(Oxford University Press, 2021)
BACKGROUND: This study examined the variation in city-level amenable mortality, i.e. mortality due to conditions that can be mitigated in the presence of timely and effective healthcare, in 363 Latin American cities and ...
Gender inequality, women's empowerment, and adolescent birth rates in 363 Latin American cities.
(Elsevier, 2023)
Background: Gender inequality is high in Latin America (LA). Empowering girls and young women and reducing gender gaps has been proposed as a pathway to reduce adolescent pregnancy. We investigated the associations of urban ...
Are Women's Empowerment and Income Inequality Associated with Excess Weight in Latin American Cities?
(Springer, 2022)
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 empowerment and ...
Park use, perceived park proximity, and neighborhood characteristics: Evidence from 11 cities in Latin America
(Elsevier, 2020)
This study examines how park use may be associated with perceived park proximity, neighborhood-built environment and perceived social disorder in Latin American cities. The study uses self-reported data from the 2016 CAF ...
Scaling of mortality in 742 metropolitan areas of the Americas.
(American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2021)
We explored how mortality scales with city population size using vital registration and population data from 742 cities in 10 Latin American countries and the United States. We found that more populated cities had lower ...
Life expectancy and mortality in 363 cities of Latin America
(Nature, 2021-01)
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 predictors ...
Life expectancy and mortality in 363 cities of Latin America
(Springer Nature, 2021)
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 predictors ...
Adolescent birth rates and the urban social environment in 363 Latin American cities
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2022)
Introduction Latin America has the second-highest adolescent birth rate (ABR) worldwide. Variation between urban and rural areas and evidence linking country development to ABR points towards upstream factors in the causal ...