A Novel International Partnership for Actionable Evidence on Urban Health in Latin America: LAC‐Urban Health and SALURBAL
Abstract This article describes the origins and characteristics of an interdisciplinary multinational collaboration aimed at promoting and disseminating actionable evidence on the drivers of health in cities in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Network for Urban Health in Latin America and the Ca...
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| author | Ana V. Diez Roux S. Claire Slesinski Marcio Alazraqui Waleska Teixeira Caiaffa Patricia Frenz Ricardo Jordán Fuchs J. Jaime Miranda Daniel A. Rodriguez Olga L. Sarmiento Dueñas José Siri Alejandra Vives Vergara |
| author_facet | Ana V. Diez Roux S. Claire Slesinski Marcio Alazraqui Waleska Teixeira Caiaffa Patricia Frenz Ricardo Jordán Fuchs J. Jaime Miranda Daniel A. Rodriguez Olga L. Sarmiento Dueñas José Siri Alejandra Vives Vergara |
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| description | Abstract This article describes the origins and characteristics of an interdisciplinary multinational collaboration aimed at promoting and disseminating actionable evidence on the drivers of health in cities in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Network for Urban Health in Latin America and the Caribbean and the Wellcome Trust funded SALURBAL (Salud Urbana en América Latina, or Urban Health in Latin America) Project. Both initiatives have the goals of supporting urban policies that promote health and health equity in cities of the region while at the same time generating generalizable knowledge for urban areas across the globe. The processes, challenges, as well as the lessons learned to date in launching and implementing these collaborations, are described. By leveraging the unique features of the Latin American region (one of the most urbanized areas of the world with some of the most innovative urban policies), the aim is to produce generalizable knowledge about the links between urbanization, health, and environments and to identify effective ways to organize, design, and govern cities to improve health, reduce health inequalities, and maximize environmental sustainability in cities all over the world. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d131c877fcf2434cb1d4557d8eb9b4352023-08-14T09:40:48ZengWileyGlobal Challenges2056-66462019-04-0134n/an/a10.1002/gch2.201800013A Novel International Partnership for Actionable Evidence on Urban Health in Latin America: LAC‐Urban Health and SALURBALAna V. Diez Roux0S. Claire Slesinski1Marcio Alazraqui2Waleska Teixeira Caiaffa3Patricia Frenz4Ricardo Jordán Fuchs5J. Jaime Miranda6Daniel A. Rodriguez7Olga L. Sarmiento Dueñas8José Siri9Alejandra Vives Vergara10Urban Health Collaborative Dornsife School of Public Health Drexel University Philadelphia 19104 PA USAUrban Health Collaborative Dornsife School of Public Health Drexel University Philadelphia 19104 PA USAInstituto de Salud Colectiva Universidad Nacional de Lanús Buenos Aires ArgentinaSchool of Medicine Federal University of Minas Gerais Belo Horizonte BrazilSchool of Public Health University of Chile Santiago ChileEconomic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean Santiago ChileSchool of Medicine Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia Lima PeruDepartment of City and Regional Planning The University of California Berkeley Berkeley 94704 CA USADepartment of Public Health University of the Andes Bogota ColombiaInternational Institute for Global Health United Nations University Kuala Lumpur MalaysiaDepartment of Public Health Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Santiago ChileAbstract This article describes the origins and characteristics of an interdisciplinary multinational collaboration aimed at promoting and disseminating actionable evidence on the drivers of health in cities in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Network for Urban Health in Latin America and the Caribbean and the Wellcome Trust funded SALURBAL (Salud Urbana en América Latina, or Urban Health in Latin America) Project. Both initiatives have the goals of supporting urban policies that promote health and health equity in cities of the region while at the same time generating generalizable knowledge for urban areas across the globe. The processes, challenges, as well as the lessons learned to date in launching and implementing these collaborations, are described. By leveraging the unique features of the Latin American region (one of the most urbanized areas of the world with some of the most innovative urban policies), the aim is to produce generalizable knowledge about the links between urbanization, health, and environments and to identify effective ways to organize, design, and govern cities to improve health, reduce health inequalities, and maximize environmental sustainability in cities all over the world.https://doi.org/10.1002/gch2.201800013health equityinterdisciplinary collaborationLatin Americasustainabilityurban health |
| spellingShingle | Ana V. Diez Roux S. Claire Slesinski Marcio Alazraqui Waleska Teixeira Caiaffa Patricia Frenz Ricardo Jordán Fuchs J. Jaime Miranda Daniel A. Rodriguez Olga L. Sarmiento Dueñas José Siri Alejandra Vives Vergara A Novel International Partnership for Actionable Evidence on Urban Health in Latin America: LAC‐Urban Health and SALURBAL Global Challenges health equity interdisciplinary collaboration Latin America sustainability urban health |
| title | A Novel International Partnership for Actionable Evidence on Urban Health in Latin America: LAC‐Urban Health and SALURBAL |
| title_full | A Novel International Partnership for Actionable Evidence on Urban Health in Latin America: LAC‐Urban Health and SALURBAL |
| title_fullStr | A Novel International Partnership for Actionable Evidence on Urban Health in Latin America: LAC‐Urban Health and SALURBAL |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Novel International Partnership for Actionable Evidence on Urban Health in Latin America: LAC‐Urban Health and SALURBAL |
| title_short | A Novel International Partnership for Actionable Evidence on Urban Health in Latin America: LAC‐Urban Health and SALURBAL |
| title_sort | novel international partnership for actionable evidence on urban health in latin america lac urban health and salurbal |
| topic | health equity interdisciplinary collaboration Latin America sustainability urban health |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1002/gch2.201800013 |
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