Browsing by Author "Lima Friche, Amélia Augusta de "

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    Social environment characteristics are related to self-rated health in four Latin America countries: Evidence from the SALURBAL Project
    (2023) Teixeira Vaz, Camila ; Moraes Coelho, Débora ; Moreira Silva, Uriel ; Souza Andrade, Amanda Cristina de ; González López, Francisca Teresa; Sarmiento Dueñas, Olga Lucía ; Lima Friche, Amélia Augusta de ; Diez-Roux, Ana Victoria ; Teixeira Caiaffa, Waleska
    We investigated the associations of social and built environment and demographic features of urban areas with self-rated health among adults living in four Latin American countries. We estimated multilevel models with harmonized data from 69,840 adults, nested in 262 sub-cities and 112 cities, obtained from the Salud Urbana en América Latina project. Poor self-rated health was inversely associated with services provision score at the sub-city-level and with social environment index at the city-level. We did not identify associations of built environment and demographic features with self-rated health. Approaches and policies to improve health in Latin American should be urban context-sensitive.