Browsing by Author "Sarmiento, Olga L."

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    Assessing cohesion and diversity in the collaboration network of the SALURBAL project
    (2023) Baquero, Sofia; Montes, Felipe; Stankov, Ivana; Sarmiento, Olga L.; Medina, Pablo; Slesinski, S. Claire; Diez-Canseco, Francisco; Kroker-Lobos, Maria F.; Teixeira, Waleska; Vives Vergara, Alejandra; Alazraqui, Marcio; Barrientos-Gutierrez, Tonatiuh; Diez Roux, Ana V.; CEDEUS (Chile)
    The SALURBAL (Urban Health in Latin America) Project is an interdisciplinary multinational network aimed at generating and disseminating actionable evidence on the drivers of health in cities of Latin America. We conducted a temporal multilayer network analysis where we measured cohesion over time using network structural properties and assessed diversity within and between different project activities according to participant attributes. Between 2017 and 2020 the SALURBAL network comprised 395 participants across 26 countries, 23 disciplines, and 181 institutions. While the cohesion of the SALURBAL network fluctuated over time, overall, an increase was observed from the first to the last time point of our analysis (clustering coefficient increased [0.83-0.91] and shortest path decreased [1.70-1.68]). SALURBAL also exhibited balanced overall diversity within project activities (0.5-0.6) by designing activities for different purposes such as capacity building, team-building, research, and dissemination. The network's growth was facilitated by the creation of new diverse collaborations across a range of activities over time, while maintaining the diversity of existing collaborations (0.69-0.75 between activity diversity depending on the attribute). The SALURBAL experience can serve as an example for multinational research projects aiming to build cohesive networks while leveraging heterogeneity in countries, disciplines, career stage, and across sectors.
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    Gender and urban health: a Latin American structured tool for research and policy
    (CADERNOS SAUDE PUBLICA, 2024) Morais, Lidia Maria de Oliveira; Borde, Elis; Guevara, Paula; Valdebenito Montenegro, Roxana Andrea; Baldovino-Chiquillo, Laura; Sarmiento, Olga L.; Vives Vergara, Alejandra; Friche, Amelia Augusta de Lima; Caiaffa, Waleska Teixeira
    Latin American cities have evolved via exclusionary historical processes, resulting in hasty and unplanned urbanization, insufficient infrastructure, and extreme levels of violence. These issues have well-documented health implications. In urban settings, gender may lead to unequal access to opportunities and services, however, its consideration into policies, interventions, and research remains insufficient, potentially exacerbating urban inequities. Drawing inspiration from feminist urbanism and urban health research, we propose a structured tool for Latin American cities to develop gender-sensitive urban policies, interventions, and urban health research. The study encompassed: (1) a narrative literature review of feminist urbanism frameworks and the Delphi method to select the most appropriate dimensions; (2) a thorough examination of data availability and indicators in three studies of urban transformation interventions in Brazil, Colombia, and Chile to evaluate data availability and local interest; and (3) an urban health dialogue with the relevant indicators. We identified three key dimensions: "proximity," "autonomy," and "representativeness". Neighborhood was considered the most meaningful level for analyses. The indicators were organized into subdimensions, considering existing literature on their implications for gender and health. The proposed tool is comprehensive and adaptable, thus, it can be used in diverse Latin American urban contexts. It is a valuable resource for incorporating a gender-sensitive perspective into urban policymaking, interventions, and health-related research.
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    Research Translation to Promote Urban Health in Latin America: The SALURBAL Experience
    (Springer, 2024) Slesinski, S. Claire; Indvik, Katherine; Bolinaga, Andrea; Roux, Ana V. Diez; Barrientos-Gutiérrez, Tonatiuh; Caiaffa, Waleska Teixeira; Diez-Canseco, Francisco; Miranda, J. Jaime; Rodríguez, Daniel A.; Sarmiento, Olga L.; Siri, José G.; Vives Vergara, Alejandra; CEDEUS (Chile)
    In highly urbanized and unequal Latin America, urban health and health equity research are essential to effective policymaking. To ensure the application of relevant and context-specific evidence to efforts to reduce urban health inequities, urban health research in Latin America must incorporate strategic research translation efforts. Beginning in 2017, the Urban Health in Latin America (SALURBAL) project implemented policy-relevant research and engaged policymakers and the public to support the translation of research findings. Over 6 years, more than 200 researchers across eight countries contributed to SALURBAL's interdisciplinary network. This network allowed SALURBAL to adapt research and engagement activities to local contexts and priorities, thereby maximizing the policy relevance of research findings and their application to promote policy action, inform urban interventions, and drive societal change. SALURBAL achieved significant visibility and credibility among academic and nonacademic urban health stakeholders, resulting in the development of evidence and tools to support urban policymakers, planners, and policy development processes across the region. These efforts and their outcomes reveal important lessons regarding maintaining flexibility and accounting for local context in research, ensuring that resources are dedicated to policy engagement and dissemination activities, and recognizing that assessing policy impact requires a nuanced understanding of complex policymaking processes. These reflections are relevant for promoting urban health and health equity research translation across the global south and worldwide. This paper presents SALURBAL's strategy for dissemination and policy translation, highlights innovative initiatives and their outcomes, discusses lessons learned, and shares recommendations for future efforts to promote effective translation of research findings.
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    Social Inclusion and Physical Activity in Ciclovia Recreativa Programs in Latin America
    (2021) Mejia-Arbelaez, Carlos; Sarmiento, Olga L.; Mora Vega, Rodrigo; Flores Castillo, Mónica; Truffello, Ricardo; Martínez, Lina; Medina, Catalina; Guaje, Oscar; Pinzón Ortiz, José David; Useche, Andres F.; Rojas-Rueda, David; Delclòs-Alió, Xavier; CEDEUS (Chile)
    Ciclovia Recreativa is a program in which streets are closed off to automobiles so that people have a safe and inclusive space for recreation and for being physically active. The study aims were: (1) to compare participant's spatial trajectories in four Ciclovia Recreativa programs in Latin America (Bogota, Mexico City, Santiago de Cali, and Santiago de Chile) according to socioeconomic characteristics and urban segregation of these cities; and (2) to assess the relationship between participants' physical activity (PA) levels and sociodemographic characteristics. We harmonized data of cross-sectional studies including 3282 adults collected between 2015 and 2019. We found the highest mobility for recreation in Bogota, followed closely by Santiago de Cali. In these two cities, the maximum SES (socioeconomic status) percentile differences between the neighborhood of origin and the neighborhoods visited as part of the Ciclovia use were 33.58 (p-value < 0.001) and 30.38 (p-value < 0.001), respectively, indicating that in these two cities, participants were more likely to visit higher or lower SES neighborhoods than their average SES-of-neighborhood origin. By contrast, participants from Mexico City and Santiago de Chile were more likely to stay in geographic units similar to their average SES-of-origin, having lower overall mobility during leisure time: maximum SES percentile difference 1.55 (p-value < 0.001) and -0.91 (p-value 0.001), respectively. PA levels of participants did not differ by sex or SES. Our results suggest that Ciclovia can be a socially inclusive program in highly unequal and segregated urban environments, which provides a space for PA whilefacilitat physical proximity, exposure to new communities and environments, and interactions between different socioeconomic groups.
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    The path towards herd immunity: Predicting COVID-19 vaccination uptake through results from a stated choice study across six continents
    (2022) Hess, Stephane; Lancsar, Emily; Mariel, Petr; Meyerhoff, Juergen; Song, Fangqing; Van den Broek-Altenburg, Eline; Alaba, Olufunke A.; Amaris, Gloria; Arellana, Julian; Basso, Leonardo J.; Benson, Jamie; Bravo-Moncayo, Luis; Chanel, Olivier; Choi, Syngjoo; Sourd, Romain Crastes Dit; Cybis, Helena Bettella; Dorner, Zack; Falco, Paolo; Garzon-Perez, Luis; Glass, Kathryn; Guzman, Luis A.; Huang, Zhiran; Huynh, Elisabeth; Kim, Bongseop; Konstantinus, Abisai; Konstantinus, Iyaloo; Larranaga, Ana Margarita; Longo, Alberto; Loo, Becky P. Y.; Oehlmann, Malte; O'Neill, Vikki; Ortuzar Salas, Juan De Dios; Sanz, Maria Jose; Sarmiento, Olga L.; Moyo, Hazvinei Tamuka; Tucker, Steven; Wang, Yacan; Wang, Yu; Webb, Edward J. D.; Zhang, Junyi; Zuidgeest, Mark H. P.
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    Urban transformations, community participation, and health: inter-sectoral and cross-country learning experience between Brazil, Chile, and Colombia
    (2023) Morais, Lídia Maria de Oliveira; Guevara Aladino, Paula; Valdebenito, Roxana; Díaz, Natalia; Indvik, Katherine; Sarmiento, Olga L.; Vives Vergara, Alejandra; Friche, Amélia Augusta de Lima; Teixeira Caiaffa, Waleska; CEDEUS (Chile)
    La difusión de resultados de investigación es esencial para construir entornos urbanos más saludables. Éste es un proceso complejo que requiere confianza, comprensión y motivación entre sectores y grupos de actores claves para propiciar espacios de intercambio de conocimiento y experiencias. Integrantes de la red Salud Urbana en América Latina convocaron a un grupo de investigadores, tomadores decisiones y miembros de las comunidades de Brasil, Chile y Colombia para dialogar sobre tres intervenciones de transformación urbana. El evento “Transformaciones urbanas, participación comunitaria y salud: Aprendizajes de Brasil, Chile y Colombia” se realizó de manera virtual el 2 de septiembre de 2021; consideramos que esta experiencia brindó una oportunidad innovadora para el fortalecimiento de capacidades y la generación de nuevos vínculos entre diversos actores en América Latina. Durante el evento se reiteró la importancia de incluir a los tomadores de decisiones y a los miembros de las comunidades en el proceso de investigación para ampliar la comprensión de los contextos urbanos de todos los actores vinculados al proceso de investigación. Esperamos que esta experiencia sirva de inspiración para diálogos intersectoriales que puedan ampliar la práctica de investigación, fortalecer la difusión de resultados sobre intervenciones urbanas y sus evaluaciones para promover la salud y la sostenibilidad.
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    Using community-based system dynamics modeling to understand the complex systems that influence health in cities: The SALURBAL study
    (ELSEVIER SCI LTD, 2019) Langellier, Brent A.; Kuhlberg, Jill A.; Ballard, Ellis A.; Slesinski, S. Claire; Stankov, Ivana; Gouveia, Nelson; Meisel, Jose D.; Kroker Lobos, Maria F.; Sarmiento, Olga L.; Caiaffa, Waleska Teixeira; Roux, Ana V. Diez; Alazraqui, Marcio; Spinelli, Hugo; Guevel, Carlos; Di Cecco, Vanessa; Tisnes, Adela; Leveau, Carlos; Santoro, Adrian; Herkovits, Damian; Gouveia, Nelson; Barreto, Mauricio; Santos, Gervasio; Cardoso, Leticia; de Menezes, Mariana Carvalho; de Pina, Maria de Fatima; Caiaffa, Waleska Teixeira; de Lima Friche, Amelia Augusta; de Souza Andrade, Amanda Cristina; Frenz, Patricia; Alfaro, Tania; Cordova, Cynthia; Ruiz, Pablo; Fuentes, Mauricio; Vives Vergara, Alejandra; Salazar, Alejandro; Cortinez O'Ryan, Andrea; Schmitt, Cristian; Gonzalez, Francisca; Baeza, Fernando; Angelini, Flavia; Sarmiento Duenas, Olga Lucia; Higuera, Diana; Gonzalez, Catalina; Montes, Felipe; Useche, Andres F.; Guaje, Oscar; Maria Jaramillo, Ana; Angel Guzman, Luis; Hessel, Philipp; Lucumi, Diego; David Meisel, Jose; Martinez, Eliana; Kroker Lobos, Maria F.; Ramirez Zea, Manuel; Martinez Folgar, Kevin; Barrientos Gutierrez, Tonatiuh; Perez Ferrer, Carolina; Prado Galbarro, Javier; de Castro, Filipa; Rojas Martinez, Rosalba; Jaime Miranda, J.; Hernandez Vasquez, Akram; Diez Canseco, Francisco; Hammond, Ross; Rodriguez, Daniel; Dronova, Iryna; Wang, Xize; Moran, Mika; Hovmand, Peter; Fuchs, Ricardo Jordan; Braslow, Juliet; Siri, Jose; Roux, Ana Diez; Auchincloss, Amy; Bilal, Usama; Garcia Espana, Felipe; Langellier, Brent; Lovasi, Gina; McClure, Leslie; Michael, Yvonne; Moore, Kari; Quick, Harrison; Quistberg, D. Alex; Sanchez, Brisa N.; Stankov, Ivana; Granados, Jose Tapia; SALURBAL Grp
    We discuss the design, implementation, and results of a collaborative process designed to elucidate the complex systems that drive food behaviors, transport, and health in Latin American cities and to build capacity for systems thinking and community-based system dynamics (CBSD) methods among diverse research team members and stakeholders. During three CB SD workshops, 62 stakeholders from 10 Latin American countries identified 98 variables and a series of feedback loops that shape food behaviors, transportation and health, along with 52 policy levers. Our findings suggest that CBSD can engage local stakeholders, help them view problems through the lens of complex systems and use their insights to prioritize research efforts and identify novel solutions that consider mechanisms of complexity.