Research summaries and priorities

RESEARCH SUMMARIES:

The documents below are summaries of SALURBAL's completed and ongoing research, including main results from completed manuscripts and the titles of proposals still in development:

• Health survey research: All research that uses data from adult and/or child health surveys as outcomes. This also includes survey data related to behavioral risk factors such as dietary intake, tobacco use, alcohol consumption, and physical activity.

• Vital registration research: All research that uses birth or death data as outcome variables. This includes studies of life expectancy, specific causes of death, infant mortality, birth weight, preterm birth, and other birth outcomes or characteristics. 

• Infectious disease research: All research related to infectious disease outcomes such as COVID-19, Dengue and other mosquito or vector-borne diseases, etc. 

• Built environment research: Built environment, urban form, greenness, blue space, parks, transportation, climate/heat and air pollution analyses. Papers included in vital registration or health survey research summaries or in the social environment research summary are not repeated here even if they include built environment or related exposure measures.

• Social environment research: Social environment specific analyses, i.e. descriptions and predictors of segregation, social disorder, living conditions, etc. Note that papers included in vital registration and health survey research summaries or in the built environment research summary are not repeated here even if they include social environment measures.