Associations between social and built environments and cardiovascular disease mortality across 342 Latin American cities: results from the SALURBAL study
Our findings emphasise the impact of urban inequalities on cardiovascular health, while also identifying education as an important and modifiable urban environmental feature that could be amenable to public health policies aimed at addressing disparities in CVD mortality within Latin American cities.
Authors
- Waleska Teixeira Caiaffa (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5043-4980)
- Thais Oliveira (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5573-0041)
- J. Jaime Miranda (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4738-5468)
- Natalia Tumas (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-6624)
- Maria F. Kroker‐Lobos (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8631-3101)
- Dayan Carvalho Ramos Salles de Oliveira (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2821-7223)
- Carolina Nazzal (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2422-1484)
- Tania Alfaro (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2528-1457)
- Usama Bilal (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9868-7773)
- Nélson Gouveia (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0625-0265)
- Letícia de Oliveira Cardoso (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1312-1808)
- Manuel Ramírez‐Zea (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5107-9175)
- Goro Yamada (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1691-5155)
Institutions
- Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (BR)
- Johns Hopkins University (US)
- Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (AR)
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra (ES)
- Universidade de São Paulo (BR)
- Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (PE)
- Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (GT)
- Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (BR)
- University of Chile (CL)
- Drexel University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Global Health
- Published
- 2025-10-31
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.7189/jogh.15.04262
- Primary Topic
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00