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

ABSTRACT: The built environment of cities is complex and influences social and environmental determinants of health. In this study we, 1) identified city profiles based on the built landscape and street design characteristics of cities in Latin America and 2) evaluated the associations of city profiles with social determinants of health and air pollution. Landscape and street design profiles of 370 cities were identified using finite mixture modeling. For landscape, we measured fragmentation, isolation, and shape. For street design, we measured street connectivity, street length, and directness. We fitted a two-level linear mixed model to assess the association of social and environmental determinants of health with the profiles. We identified four profiles for landscape and four for the street desi

SUBMITTER: Sarmiento OL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8547632 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature