Data
This page serves as an archive for SALURBAL 2015-2025 and is no longer being updated regularly.
The SALURBAL project compiled pre-existing data from Latin American cities, countries, and regional institutions to study the ways in which urban environments in Latin America are associated with various health, equity, and environmental outcomes.
The SALURBAL portal provides a comprehensive health and exposure dataset that covers 11 countries, 371 cities, 1,436 subcities, and 246,942 neighborhoods across Latin America.
SALURBAL acknowledges the contributions of many different agencies in generating, processing, facilitating access to data or assisting with other aspects of the project. View a list of agencies that have contributed to SALURBAL.
Data in the SALURBAL Project
Data in the SALURBAL Project provides an overview of the process of selecting cities, compiling data, and the types of questions the dataset may help to answer. The document was developed to inform future SALURBAL studies and to receive feedback from stakeholder working in urban health in the region regarding how SALURBAL research can support their efforts. (November 2018)
Data in the SALURBAL Project (English PDF)
Los Datos del Proyecto SALURBAL (Español PDF)
Os Dados do Projeto SALURBAL (Português PDF)
Further information about SALURBAL's data domains, variables, and methodological approach is available in Building a Data Platform for Cross-Country Urban Health Studies: the SALURBAL Study, published in the Journal of Urban Health (Quistberg et al., 2018)