Neighbourhoods’ social, built, and natural environment characteristics and body mass index in Latin American cities
Fil: Rodríguez López. Santiago. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Argentina.
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| author | Rodríguez López, Santiago Diez Roux, Ana Tumas, Natalia Moore, Kari Sarmiento, Olga Lucía Sánchez, Brisa Perez-Ferrer, Carolina Flores-Alvarado, Sandra Mazariegos, Mónica Bilal, Usama Lazo, Mariana |
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| spelling | rdu-unc.5564762025-07-18T15:18:41Z Neighbourhoods’ social, built, and natural environment characteristics and body mass index in Latin American cities Rodríguez López, Santiago Diez Roux, Ana Tumas, Natalia Moore, Kari Sarmiento, Olga Lucía Sánchez, Brisa Perez-Ferrer, Carolina Flores-Alvarado, Sandra Mazariegos, Mónica Bilal, Usama Lazo, Mariana https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3539-3751 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9658-7050 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-6624 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8771-2593 https://orcid.org/0009-0000-0702-0483 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4824-7200 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4732-3555 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0490-0578 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2250-3683 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9868-7773 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3178-6734 Neighbourhood Education Intersection density Green space Street connectivity Latin America info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion Fil: Rodríguez López. Santiago. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Argentina. Fil: Rodríguez López. Santiago. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios sobre Cultura y Sociedad; Argentina. Fil: Diez Roux, Ana. Universidad de Drexel. Escuela de Salud Pública Dornsife; Estados Unidos. Fil: Tumas, Natalia. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Médicas; Argentina. Fil: Tumas, Natalia. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios sobre Cultura y Sociedad; Argentina. Fil: Moore, Kari. Universidad Drexel. Escuela de Salud Pública Dornsife; Estados Unidos. Fil: Sarmiento, Olga Lucía. Universidad de los Andes. Facultad de Medicina; Colombia. Fil: Sánchez, Brisa. Universidad Drexel. Escuela de Salud Pública Dornsife; Estados Unidos. Fil: Perez-Ferrer, Carolina. Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública. Centro de Investigación en Salud Poblacional; México. Fil: Flores-Alvarado, Sandra. Universidad de Chile. Escuela de Salud Pública. Programa de Bioestadística; Chile. Fil: Mazariegos, Mónica. Instituto de Nutrición de Centroamérica y Panamá. Centro de Investigación para la Prevención de Enfermedades Crónicas; Guatemala. Fil: Bilal, Usama. Universidad Drexel. Escuela de Salud Pública Dornsife; Estados Unidos. Fil: Lazo, Mariana. Universidad Drexel. Escuela de Salud Pública Dornsife; Estados Unidos. Background: Features of neighbourhoods affect body mass index (BMI) but this has been poorly acknowledged within the highly heterogeneous and unequal contexts of Latin American cities. We evaluated associations between social, built, and natural environment characteristics of neighbourhoods with BMI, and investigated whether these associations were modified by individual socioeconomic position (SEP). Methods: We linked individual data (n ¼ 43 968) from national health surveys to data on neighbourhoods (n ¼ 3428) and cities (n ¼ 165) in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico. Linear mixed models were used to estimate associations between neighbourhood education, intersection density, and greenness with BMI, adjusting for individual- and city-level characteristics. Results: Associations between neighbourhood education and BMI varied by country, in both magnitude and direction. In Argentina and Chile, higher neighbourhood education was associated with lower BMI. This negative association was also observed among women in Colombia and Mexico, although it was weaker. Among men in Colombia and Mexico, however, the association was positive. Associations of neighbourhood intersection density and greenness with BMI were less robust. In general, we did not find strong evidence of effect modification by individual SEP. Conclusion: Neighbourhood 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. info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion Fil: Rodríguez López. Santiago. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Argentina. Fil: Rodríguez López. Santiago. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios sobre Cultura y Sociedad; Argentina. Fil: Diez Roux, Ana. Universidad de Drexel. Escuela de Salud Pública Dornsife; Estados Unidos. Fil: Tumas, Natalia. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Médicas; Argentina. Fil: Tumas, Natalia. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios sobre Cultura y Sociedad; Argentina. Fil: Moore, Kari. Universidad Drexel. Escuela de Salud Pública Dornsife; Estados Unidos. Fil: Sarmiento, Olga Lucía. Universidad de los Andes. Facultad de Medicina; Colombia. Fil: Sánchez, Brisa. Universidad Drexel. Escuela de Salud Pública Dornsife; Estados Unidos. Fil: Perez-Ferrer, Carolina. Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública. Centro de Investigación en Salud Poblacional; México. Fil: Flores-Alvarado, Sandra. Universidad de Chile. Escuela de Salud Pública. Programa de Bioestadística; Chile. Fil: Mazariegos, Mónica. Instituto de Nutrición de Centroamérica y Panamá. Centro de Investigación para la Prevención de Enfermedades Crónicas; Guatemala. Fil: Bilal, Usama. Universidad Drexel. Escuela de Salud Pública Dornsife; Estados Unidos. Fil: Lazo, Mariana. Universidad Drexel. Escuela de Salud Pública Dornsife; Estados Unidos. 2025-07-18T14:34:28Z 2025-07-18T14:34:28Z 2025-04 article http://hdl.handle.net/11086/556476 eng Licencia Creative Commons Atribución 4.0 Internacional http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| spellingShingle | Neighbourhood Education Intersection density Green space Street connectivity Latin America Rodríguez López, Santiago Diez Roux, Ana Tumas, Natalia Moore, Kari Sarmiento, Olga Lucía Sánchez, Brisa Perez-Ferrer, Carolina Flores-Alvarado, Sandra Mazariegos, Mónica Bilal, Usama Lazo, Mariana Neighbourhoods’ social, built, and natural environment characteristics and body mass index in Latin American cities |
| title | Neighbourhoods’ social, built, and natural environment characteristics and body mass index in Latin American cities |
| title_full | Neighbourhoods’ social, built, and natural environment characteristics and body mass index in Latin American cities |
| title_fullStr | Neighbourhoods’ social, built, and natural environment characteristics and body mass index in Latin American cities |
| title_full_unstemmed | Neighbourhoods’ social, built, and natural environment characteristics and body mass index in Latin American cities |
| title_short | Neighbourhoods’ social, built, and natural environment characteristics and body mass index in Latin American cities |
| title_sort | neighbourhoods social built and natural environment characteristics and body mass index in latin american cities |
| topic | Neighbourhood Education Intersection density Green space Street connectivity Latin America |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11086/556476 |
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