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Health and Environmental Co-Benefits of City Urban Form in Latin America: An Ecological Study
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Health and Environmental Co-Benefits of City Urban Form in Latin America: An Ecological Study

Ione Avila-Palencia, Brisa Sánchez, Daniel Rodríguez, Carolina Perez-Ferrer, J Jaime Miranda, Nelson Gouveia, Usama Bilal, Andrés Useche, Maria Wilches-Mogollon, Kari Moore, …
Sustainability (Basel, Switzerland), v 14(22), p14715
01 Jan 2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/su142214715
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Abstract

Air pollution Body mass index Built environment Carbon footprint Cities Diabetes Diabetes mellitus Ecological studies Emissions Environmental impact Fragmentation Health risks Hypertension Mortality Nitrogen dioxide Particulate matter Per capita Regression analysis Regression models Risk analysis Risk factors Tumors Urban areas Urban development Urban environments Vegetation
We investigated the association of urban landscape profiles with health and environmental outcomes, and whether those profiles are linked to environmental and health co-benefits. In this ecological study, we used data from 208 cities in 8 Latin American countries of the SALud URBana en América Latina (SALURBAL) project. Four urban landscape profiles were defined with metrics for the fragmentation, isolation, and shape of patches (contiguous area of urban development). Four environmental measures (lack of greenness, PM2.5, NO2, and carbon footprint), two cause-specific mortality rates (non-communicable diseases and unintentional injury mortality), and prevalence of three risk factors (hypertension, diabetes, and obesity) for adults were used as the main outcomes. We used linear regression models to evaluate the association of urban landscape profiles with environmental and health outcomes. In addition, we used finite mixture modeling to create co-benefit classes. Cities with the scattered pixels profile (low fragmentation, high isolation, and compact shaped patches) were most likely to have positive co-benefits. Profiles described as proximate stones (moderate fragmentation, moderate isolation, and irregular shape) and proximate inkblots (moderate-high fragmentation, moderate isolation, and complex shape) were most likely to have negative co-benefits. The contiguous large inkblots profile (low fragmentation, low isolation, and complex shape) was most likely to have mixed benefits.

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UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

This publication has contributed to the advancement of the following goals:

#3 Good Health and Well-Being
#15 Life on Land
#13 Climate Action
#14 Life Below Water
#11 Sustainable Cities and Communities

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