Social environment characteristics are related to self-rated health in four Latin America countries: Evidence from the SALURBAL Project

Health Place. 2023 Sep 11;83:103110. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2023.103110. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTWe 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.PMID:37708687 | DOI:10.1016/j.healthplace.2023.103110

Source: Health and Place - September 14, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Camila Teixeira Vaz D ébora Moraes Coelho Uriel Moreira Silva Amanda Cristina de Souza Andrade Francisca Gonz ález López Olga Luc ía Sarmiento Dueñas Am élia Augusta de Lima Friche Ana Victoria Diez-Roux Waleska Teixeira Caiaffa Source Type: research