December 2019:

Life expectancy inequalities within six large Latin American cities in the SALURBAL Study

DESIGUALDADES EN ESPERANZA DE VIDA EN SEIS CIUDADES DE LATINOAMÉRICA, UN ESTUDIO DE SALURBAL

EMBARGOED UNTIL DECEMBER 10, 2019, 6:30PM/18:30 EASTERN TIME

On December 10, 2019, the SALURBAL Project published new findings on inequalities in life expectancy in six Latin American cities: Buenos Aires, Argentina; Belo Horizonte, Brazil; Santiago, Chile; San Jose, Costa Rica; Mexico City, Mexico; and Panama City, Panama.

On this page you'll find downloadable maps and figures, a press release, as well as press releases tailored to each city.

The research paper can be downloaded and accessed here after the embargo is lifted: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(19)30235-9

ON THIS PAGE:

General Press Release

Maps and Figures

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Belo Horizonte, Brasil

Santiago de Chile

San Jose, Costa Rica

Mexico City, Mexico

Panama City, Panama

About the Author

Usama Bilal, PhD, MPH, MD

Co-investigator of the SALURBAL project

Usama Bilal is currently an Assistant Professor in the Urban Health Collaborative and the Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics at Drexel's Dornsife School of Public Health. His primary research interest is the macrosocial determinants of health, with a specific interest in nutrition-related conditions and their upstream causes. Most of his work focuses on the role that city- and neighborhood-level dynamics have in generating disease, and the use of complexity methodologies to study the emergent properties of urban environments.