Browsing by Author "Alfaro, Tania"

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Life expectancy and mortality in 363 cities of Latin America

Bilal, Usama; Hessel, Philipp; Perez-Ferrer, Carolina; Michael, Yvonne L.; Alfaro, Tania; Tenorio Mucha, Janeth Marilyn; Friche, Amelia A. L.; Pina, Maria Fatima; Vives, Alejandra; Quick, Harrison; Alazraqui, Marcio; Rodriguez, Daniel A.; Miranda, J. Jaime; Diez-Roux, Ana V. (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 ...
Scaling of mortality in 742 metropolitan areas of the Americas.

Bilal, Usama; de Castro, Caio P.; Alfaro, Tania; Barrientos-Gutierrez, Tonatiuh; Barreto, Mauricio L.; Leveau, Carlos M.; Martinez-Folgar, Kevin; Miranda, J. Jaime; Montes, Felipe; Mullachery, Pricila; Pina, Maria Fatima; Rodriguez, Daniel A.; Dos Santos, Gervasio F.; Andrade, Roberto F. S.; Diez Roux, Ana V. (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 ...

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