Browsing by Author "Bilal, Usama"

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    • Building a Data Platform for Cross-Country Urban Health Studies: the SALURBAL Study 
      Quistberg, D. Alex; Diez Roux, Ana V.; Bilal, Usama; Moore, Kari; Ortigoza, Ana; Rodriguez, Daniel A.; Sarmiento, Olga L.; Frenz, Patricia; Friche, Amélia Augusta; Caiaffa, Waleska Teixeira; Vives, Alejandra; Miranda, J. Jaime; Alazraqui, Marcio; Spinelli, Hugo; Guevel (Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2019)
      © 2018, The Author(s).Studies examining urban health and the environment must ensure comparability of measures across cities and countries. We describe a data platform and process that integrates health outcomes together ...
    • COVID-19 and the worsening of health inequities in Santiago, Chile 
      Bilal, Usama; Alfaro Morgado, Tania; Vives, Alejandra (Oxford, 2021)
    • Excess mortality during the COVID‑19 pandemic in cities of Chile: magnitude, inequalities, and urban determinants 
      Alfaro Morgado, Tania; Martínez Folgar, Kevin; Vives, Alejandra; Bilal, Usama (Springer, 2022)
      We estimated excess mortality in Chilean cities during the COVID-19 pandemic and its association with city-level factors. We used mortality, and social and built environment data from the SALURBAL study for 21 Chilean ...
    • Life expectancy and mortality in 363 cities of Latin America 
      Bilal, Usama; Hessel, Philipp; Pérez Ferrer, Carolina; Michael, Yvonne L.; Alfaro Morgado, Tania; Tenorio Mucha, Janeth; Friche, Amelia A. L.; Piña, María Fátima; Vives, Alejandra; Quick, Harrison; Alazraqui, Marcio; Rodríguez, Daniel A.; Miranda, J. Jaime; Diez Roux, Ana V. (Nature Research, 2021)
      The concept of a so-called urban advantage in health ignores the possibility of heterogeneity in health outcomes across cities. Using a harmonized dataset from the SALURBAL project, we describe variability and predictors ...
    • Scaling of mortality in 742 metropolitan areas of the Americas 
      Bilal, Usama; Castro, Caio P. de; Alfaro Morgado, Tania; Barrientos Gutiérrez, Tonatiuh; Barreto, Mauricio L.; Leveau, Carlos M.; Martínez Folgar, Kevin; Miranda, J. Jaime; Montes, Felipe; Mullachery, Pricila; Pina, María Fátima; Rodríguez, Daniel A.; Dos Santos, Gervasio F.; Andrade, Roberto F. S.; Diez-Roux, Ana V. (Amer Assoc Advancement Science, 2021)
      We explored how mortality scales with city population size using vital registration and population data from 742 cities in 10 Latin American countries and the United States. We found that more populated cities had lower ...