Built environment profiles for Latin American urban settings: The SALURBAL study

Five side-by-side histograms showing right-skewed frequency distributions of built environment metrics across Latin American cities: weighted mean shape index, effective mesh size, nearest neighbor distance, number of urban patches, and patch density.
Distribution of built environment profile metrics (weighted mean shape index, effective mesh size, nearest neighbor distance, number of urban patches, patch density) across cities in the SALURBAL study.
Abstract
This study develops built environment profiles for Latin American urban settings as part of the SALURBAL (Salud Urbana en América Latina) project. Using data from multiple cities, the work characterizes urban environments to understand their relationship with population health outcomes.
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Authors
Olga L. Sarmiento
Andrés F. Useche
Daniel A. Rodriguez
Iryna Dronova
Oscar Guaje
Felipe Montes
Ivana Stankov
Maria Alejandra Wilches
Usama Bilal
Xize Wang
Luis A. Guzmán
Fabian Peña
D. Alex Quistberg
John Alexis Guerra Gomez
Ana V. Diez Roux
Citation
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Built environment profiles for Latin American urban settings: The SALURBAL study

Olga L. Sarmiento, Andrés F. Useche, Daniel A. Rodriguez, Iryna Dronova, Oscar Guaje, Felipe Montes, Ivana Stankov, Maria Alejandra Wilches, Usama Bilal, Xize Wang, Luis A. Guzmán, Fabian Peña, D. Alex Quistberg, John A. Guerra-Gomez, and Ana V. Diez Roux. PLOS ONE—PLOS ONE. 2021. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0257528

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