A person’s zip code influences their life expectancy more than their genetic code. Watch Salud y Ciudad, a documentary produced by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), to learn more about the critical role of urban environments in determining our life expectancy and quality of life.

The film features Ana Diez Roux and Kevin Martinez-Folgar, epidemiologists at Drexel University's Dornsife School of Public Health, and highlights evidence from SALURBAL's work to document disparities in mortality and life expectancy across and within Latin American cities.

Read more about these and other project findings:

• Spatial Inequities in Life Expectancy in Small Areas of Buenos Aires, Argentina 2015–2017
• Inequalities in life expectancy in six large Latin American cities from the SALURBAL study: an ecological analysis