Social environment characteristics are related to self-rated health in four Latin America countries: Evidence from the SALURBAL Project.
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- Vaz CT; Campus Centro-Oeste Dona Lindu, Federal University of São João del-Rei, Avenida Sebastião Gonçalves Coelho 400, Divinópolis, 35501-296, Brazil; Belo Horizonte Observatory for Urban Health, Avenida Alfredo Balena 190, Belo Horizonte, 30130-100, Brazil. Electronic address: vaz.camilateixeira@gmail.com.; Coelho DM; Belo Horizonte Observatory for Urban Health, Avenida Alfredo Balena 190, Belo Horizonte, 30130-100, Brazil; Faculty of Medicine, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Avenida Alfredo Balena 190, Belo Horizonte, 30130-100, Brazil. Electronic address: coelhaenf@gmail.com.; Silva UM; Belo Horizonte Observatory for Urban Health, Avenida Alfredo Balena 190, Belo Horizonte, 30130-100, Brazil; Faculty of Medicine, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Avenida Alfredo Balena 190, Belo Horizonte, 30130-100, Brazil. Electronic address: uriel.moreira.silva@gmail.com.; Andrade ACS; Belo Horizonte Observatory for Urban Health, Avenida Alfredo Balena 190, Belo Horizonte, 30130-100, Brazil; Institute of Public Health, Federal University of Mato Grosso, Avenida Fernando Corrêa 2367, Cuiabá, 78060-900, Brazil. Electronic address: csouza.amanda@gmail.com.; López FG; Department of Public Health, School of Medicine, Pontifical University Catholic of Chile, Chile. Electronic address: ftgonzal@gmail.com.; Dueñas OLS; Department of Epidemiology, University of Los Andes, Colombia. Electronic address: osarmien@uniandes.edu.co.; Friche AAL; Belo Horizonte Observatory for Urban Health, Avenida Alfredo Balena 190, Belo Horizonte, 30130-100, Brazil; Faculty of Medicine, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Avenida Alfredo Balena 190, Belo Horizonte, 30130-100, Brazil. Electronic address: gutafriche@gmail.com.; Diez-Roux AV; Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University, 3215 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA. Electronic address: avd37@drexel.edu.; Caiaffa WT; Belo Horizonte Observatory for Urban Health, Avenida Alfredo Balena 190, Belo Horizonte, 30130-100, Brazil; Faculty of Medicine, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Avenida Alfredo Balena 190, Belo Horizonte, 30130-100, Brazil. Electronic address: caiaffa.waleska@gmail.com.
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- Publisher: Elsevier Country of Publication: England NLM ID: 9510067 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1873-2054 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 13538292 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Health Place
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We investigated the associations of social and built environment and demographic features of urban areas with self-rated health among adults living in four Latin American countries. We estimated multilevel models with harmonized data from 69,840 adults, nested in 262 sub-cities and 112 cities, obtained from the Salud Urbana en América Latina project. Poor self-rated health was inversely associated with services provision score at the sub-city-level and with social environment index at the city-level. We did not identify associations of built environment and demographic features with self-rated health. Approaches and policies to improve health in Latin American should be urban context-sensitive.
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