Health and Environmental Co-Benefits of City Urban Form in Latin America: An Ecological Study.

ABSTRACT: We investigated the association of urban landscape profiles with health and environmental outcomes, and whether those profiles are linked to environmental and health co-benefits. In this ecological study, we used data from 208 cities in 8 Latin American countries of the SALud URBana en América Latina (SALURBAL) project. Four urban landscape profiles were defined with metrics for the fragmentation, isolation, and shape of patches (contiguous area of urban development). Four environmental measures (lack of greenness, PM_2.5, NO₂, and carbon footprint), two cause-specific mortality rates (non-communicable diseases and unintentional injury mortality), and prevalence of three risk factors (hypertension, diabetes, and obesity) for adults were used as the main outcomes

SUBMITTER: Avila-Palencia I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7614319 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature