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Building a Data Platform for Cross-Country Urban Health Studies: the SALURBAL Study

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dc.contributor.author Quistberg, D. Alex
dc.contributor.author Diez Roux, Ana V.
dc.contributor.author Bilal, Usama
dc.contributor.author Moore, Kari
dc.contributor.author Ortigoza, Ana
dc.contributor.author Rodriguez, Daniel A.
dc.contributor.author Sarmiento, Olga L.
dc.contributor.author Frenz, Patricia
dc.contributor.author Friche, Amelia Augusta
dc.contributor.author Caiaffa, Waleska Teixeira
dc.contributor.author Vives, Alejandra
dc.contributor.author Miranda, J. Jaime
dc.contributor.author SALURBAL Group
dc.date.accessioned 2019-03-05T15:23:28Z
dc.date.available 2019-03-05T15:23:28Z
dc.date.issued 2018
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/5888
dc.description.abstract Studies examining urban health and the environment must ensure comparability of measures across cities and countries. We describe a data platform and process that integrates health outcomes together with physical and social environment data to examine multilevel aspects of health across cities in 11 Latin American countries. We used two complementary sources to identify cities with >/= 100,000 inhabitants as of 2010 in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, and Peru. We defined cities in three ways: administratively, quantitatively from satellite imagery, and based on country-defined metropolitan areas. In addition to "cities," we identified sub-city units and smaller neighborhoods within them using census hierarchies. Selected physical environment (e.g., urban form, air pollution and transport) and social environment (e.g., income, education, safety) data were compiled for cities, sub-city units, and neighborhoods whenever possible using a range of sources. Harmonized mortality and health survey data were linked to city and sub-city units. Finer georeferencing is underway. We identified 371 cities and 1436 sub-city units in the 11 countries. The median city population was 234,553 inhabitants (IQR 141,942; 500,398). The systematic organization of cities, the initial task of this platform, was accomplished and further ongoing developments include the harmonization of mortality and survey measures using available sources for between country comparisons. A range of physical and social environment indicators can be created using available data. The flexible multilevel data structure accommodates heterogeneity in the data available and allows for varied multilevel research questions related to the associations of physical and social environment variables with variability in health outcomes within and across cities. The creation of such data platforms holds great promise to support researching with greater granularity the field of urban health in Latin America as well as serving as a resource for the evaluation of policies oriented to improve the health and environmental sustainability of cities. en_US
dc.language.iso eng
dc.publisher Springer
dc.relation.ispartofseries Journal of Urban Health
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.es
dc.subject air pollution en_US
dc.subject Argentina en_US
dc.subject article en_US
dc.subject Brazil en_US
dc.subject Built environment en_US
dc.subject Chile en_US
dc.subject Cities en_US
dc.subject Colombia en_US
dc.subject Costa Rica en_US
dc.subject education en_US
dc.subject El Salvador en_US
dc.subject environmental sustainability en_US
dc.subject geographic mapping en_US
dc.subject Guatemala en_US
dc.subject health survey en_US
dc.subject Health Survey en_US
dc.subject human en_US
dc.subject human experiment en_US
dc.subject Latin America en_US
dc.subject Mexico en_US
dc.subject mortality en_US
dc.subject Mortality en_US
dc.subject Multilevel Models en_US
dc.subject neighborhood en_US
dc.subject Nicaragua en_US
dc.subject Panama en_US
dc.subject Peru en_US
dc.subject satellite imagery en_US
dc.subject Social Environment en_US
dc.subject urban health en_US
dc.subject Urban health en_US
dc.subject urban population en_US
dc.title Building a Data Platform for Cross-Country Urban Health Studies: the SALURBAL Study en_US
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.identifier.doi https://doi.org/10.1007/s11524-018-00326-0
dc.subject.ocde https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#3.03.05
dc.subject.ocde https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#5.07.03
dc.relation.issn 1468-2869


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