Intraurban Geographic and Socioeconomic Inequalities of Mortality in Four Cities in Colombia.

ABSTRACT: Mortality inequalities have been described across Latin American countries, but less is known about inequalities within cities, where most populations live. We aimed to identify geographic and socioeconomic inequalities in mortality within the urban areas of four main cities in Colombia. We analyzed mortality due to non-violent causes of diseases in adults between 2015 and 2019 using census sectors as unit of analysis in Barranquilla, Bogotá, Cali, and Medellín. We calculated smoothed Bayesian mortality rates as main health outcomes and used concentration indexes (CInd) for assessing inequalities using the multidimensional poverty index (MPI) as the socioeconomic measure. Moran eigenvector spatial filters were calculated to capture the spatial patterns of mortality and then used in multiva

SUBMITTER: Rodriguez-Villamizar LA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9859133 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature