Neighbourhoods’ social, built, and natural environment characteristics and body mass index in Latin American cities

dc.contributor.authorSantiago Rodríguez López
dc.contributor.authorAna V. Diez Roux
dc.contributor.authorNatalia Tumas
dc.contributor.authorKari Moore
dc.contributor.authorOlga L. Sarmiento
dc.contributor.authorBrisa N. Sánchez
dc.contributor.authorCarolina Pérez‐Ferrer
dc.contributor.authorSandra Flores‐Alvarado
dc.contributor.authorMónica Mazariegos
dc.contributor.authorUsama Bilal
dc.coverage.spatialBolivia
dc.date.accessioned2026-03-22T19:36:00Z
dc.date.available2026-03-22T19:36:00Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.description.abstractNeighbourhood education is associated with BMI beyond individual and city characteristics, although the associations are heterogenous across countries and by gender. Associations with built and natural features were less clear. Our results highlight the relevance of context-specific analysis for planning interventions that are aimed to reduce BMI and its unequal distribution in Latin American cities.
dc.identifier.doi10.1093/ije/dyaf047
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyaf047
dc.identifier.urihttps://andeanlibrary.org/handle/123456789/77000
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherOxford University Press
dc.relation.ispartofInternational Journal of Epidemiology
dc.sourceUniversidad Nacional de Córdoba
dc.subjectNeighbourhood (mathematics)
dc.subjectGeography
dc.subjectSocioeconomic status
dc.subjectBody mass index
dc.subjectLatin Americans
dc.subjectDemography
dc.subjectPsychological intervention
dc.subjectSocial epidemiology
dc.subjectBuilt environment
dc.subjectContext (archaeology)
dc.titleNeighbourhoods’ social, built, and natural environment characteristics and body mass index in Latin American cities
dc.typearticle

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