Title
Building a Data Platform for Cross-Country Urban Health Studies: the SALURBAL Study
Date Issued
15 April 2019
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Quistberg D.A.
Diez Roux A.V.
Bilal U.
Moore K.
Ortigoza A.
Rodriguez D.A.
Sarmiento O.L.
Frenz P.
Friche A.A.
Caiaffa W.T.
Vives A.
Alazraqui M.
Spinelli H.
Guevel C.
Di Cecco V.
Tisnés A.
Leveau C.
Santoro A.
Herkovits D.
Gouveia N.
Barreto M.
Santos G.
Cardoso L.
de Menezes M.C.
de Pina M.d.F.
de Lima Friche A.A.
de Souza Andrade A.C.
Alfaro T.
Córdova C.
Ruiz P.
Fuentes M.
Vergara A.V.
Salazar A.
Cortinez-O’ryan A.
Schmitt C.
Gonzalez F.
Baeza F.
Angelini F.
Dueñas O.L.S.
Higuera D.
González C.
Montes F.
Useche A.F.
Guaje O.
Jaramillo A.M.
Guzmán L.A.
Hessel P.
Lucumi D.
Meisel J.D.
Martinez E.
Kroker-Lobos M.F.
Ramirez-Zea M.
Folger K.M.
Barrientos-Gutierrez T.
Perez-Ferrer C.
Prado-Galbarro J.
de Castro F.
Rojas-Martínez R.
Hammond R.
Dronova I.
Sanchez B.N.
Hovmand P.
Fuchs R.J.
Braslow J.
Siri J.
Auchincloss A.
Langellier B.
Lovasi G.
McClure L.
Michael Y.
Quick H.
Granados J.T.
Garcia-España F.
Stankov I.
Publisher(s)
Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
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.
Start page
311
End page
337
Volume
96
Issue
2
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Políticas de salud, Servicios de salud
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85057120882
PubMed ID
Source
Journal of Urban Health
ISSN of the container
10993460
Sponsor(s)
The SALURBAL Group includes Marcio Alazraqui, Hugo Spinelli, Carlos Guevel, Vanessa Di Cecco, Adela Tisnés, Carlos Leveau, Adrián Santoro, and Damián Herkovits: National University of Lanus, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Nelson Gouveia: Universidad de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; Mauricio Barreto and Gervásio Santos: Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Salvador Bahia, Brazil; Leticia Cardoso, Mariana Carvalho de Menezes, and Maria de Fatima de Pina: Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Waleska Teixeira Caiaffa, Amélia Augusta de Lima Friche, and Amanda Cristina de Souza Andrade: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil; Patricia Frenz, Tania Alfaro, Cynthia Córdova, Pablo Ruiz, and Mauricio Fuentes: School of Public Health, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile; Alejandra Vives Vergara, Alejandro Salazar, Andrea Cortinez-O’Ryan, Cristián Schmitt, Francisca Gonzalez, Fernando Baeza, and Flavia Angelini: Department of Public Health, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile; Olga Lucía Sarmiento Dueñas, Diana Higuera, and Catalina González: School of Medicine, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia; Felipe Montes, Andres F. Useche, Oscar Guaje, Ana Maria Jaramillo, and Luis Angel Guzmán: School of Engineering, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia. Philipp Hessel and Diego Lucumi: School of Government, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia; Jose David Meisel: Universidad de Ibagué, Ibagué, Colombia; Eliana Martinez: Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia; María F. Kroker-Lobos, Manuel Ramirez-Zea, and Kevin Martinez Folger: INCAP Research Center for the Prevention of Chronic Diseases (CIIPEC), Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP), Guatemala City, Guatemala; Tonatiuh Barrientos-Gutierrez, Carolina Perez-Ferrer, Javier Prado-Galbarro, Filipa de Castro, and Rosalba Rojas-Martínez: Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, Mexico City, Mexico; J. Jaime Miranda, Akram Hernández Vásquez, and Francisco Diez-Canseco: School of Medicine, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru; Ross Hammond: Brookings Institute, Washington, D.C., USA; Daniel Rodriguez and Iryna Dronova: Department of City and Regional Planning, the University of California Berkeley, USA; Brisa N. Sanchez: University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA; Peter Hovmand: Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA; Ricardo Jordán Fuchs and Juliet Braslow: Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC); Jose Siri: United Nations University International Institute for Global Health (UNU-IIGH); Ana Diez Roux, Amy Auchincloss, Brent Langellier, Gina Lovasi, Leslie McClure, Yvonne Michael, Harrison Quick, D. Alex Quistberg, Jose Tapia Granados, Kari Moore, Felipe Garcia-España, Usama Bilal, and Ivana Stankov: Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; Salud Urbana en América Latina (SALURBAL), Urban Health in Latin America, is a 5-year project that studies how urban environments and urban policies impact the health of city residents throughout Latin America. SALURBAL’s findings inform policies and interventions to create healthier, more equitable, and more sustainable cities worldwide. SALURBAL is funded by the Wellcome Trust [205177/Z/16/Z]. More information about the project can be found at www.lacurbanhealth.org. This project was supported by the Wellcome Trust initiative, “Our Planet, Our Health” (Grant 205177/Z/16/Z).
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