Browsing by Author "Montes, Felipe"

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    • Do Health Benefits Outweigh the Costs of Mass Recreational Programs? An Economic Analysis of Four Ciclovía Programs 
      Montes, Felipe; Sarmiento, Olga L.; Zarama, Roberto; Pratt, Michael; Wang, Guijing; Jacoby, Enrique; Schmid, Thomas L.; Ramos, Mauricio; Ruiz, Oscar; Vargas, Olga; Michel, Gabriel; Zieff, Susan G.; Valdivia Hepp, Juan; Cavill, Nick; Kahlmeier, Sonja (Springer, 2012-02)
      One promising public health intervention for promoting physical activity is the Ciclovia program. The Ciclovia is a regular multisectorial community-based program in which streets are temporarily closed for motorized ...
    • 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 ...