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Scaling of mortality in 742 metropolitan areas of the Americas.

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dc.contributor.author Bilal, Usama
dc.contributor.author de Castro, Caio P.
dc.contributor.author Alfaro, Tania
dc.contributor.author Barrientos-Gutierrez, Tonatiuh
dc.contributor.author Barreto, Mauricio L.
dc.contributor.author Leveau, Carlos M.
dc.contributor.author Martinez-Folgar, Kevin
dc.contributor.author Miranda, J. Jaime
dc.contributor.author Montes, Felipe
dc.contributor.author Mullachery, Pricila
dc.contributor.author Pina, Maria Fatima
dc.contributor.author Rodriguez, Daniel A.
dc.contributor.author Dos Santos, Gervasio F.
dc.contributor.author Andrade, Roberto F. S.
dc.contributor.author Diez Roux, Ana V.
dc.date.accessioned 2022-02-01T21:18:25Z
dc.date.available 2022-02-01T21:18:25Z
dc.date.issued 2021
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/11263
dc.description.abstract 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 mortality (sublinear scaling), driven by a sublinear pattern in U.S. cities, while Latin American cities had similar mortality across city sizes. Sexually transmitted infections and homicides showed higher rates in larger cities (superlinear scaling). Tuberculosis mortality behaved sublinearly in U.S. and Mexican cities and superlinearly in other Latin American cities. Other communicable, maternal, neonatal, and nutritional deaths, and deaths due to noncommunicable diseases were generally sublinear in the United States and linear or superlinear in Latin America. Our findings reveal distinct patterns across the Americas, suggesting no universal relation between city size and mortality, pointing to the importance of understanding the processes that explain heterogeneity in scaling behavior or mortality to further advance urban health policies en_US
dc.language.iso eng
dc.publisher American Association for the Advancement of Science
dc.relation.ispartofseries Science Advances
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.es
dc.subject Mortality en_US
dc.subject Metropolitan areas en_US
dc.subject Americas en_US
dc.title Scaling of mortality in 742 metropolitan areas of the Americas. en_US
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.identifier.doi https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abl6325
dc.relation.issn 2375-2548


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