1. Scaling of mortality in 742 metropolitan areas of the Americas.
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Bilal, Usama, de Castro, Caio P., Alfaro, Tania, Barrientos-Gutierrez, Tonatiuh, Barreto, Mauricio L., Leveau, Carlos M., Martinez-Folgar, Kevin, Miranda, J. Jaime, Montes, Felipe, Mullachery, Pricila, Pina, Maria Fatima, Rodriguez, Daniel A., dos Santos, Gervasio F., Andrade, Roberto F. S., and Roux, Ana V. Diez
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METROPOLITAN areas , *COVID-19 , *TUBERCULOSIS , *HEALTH facilities , *HISPANIC Americans , *MEDICAL care , *GALLBLADDER ,BILIARY tract cancer - Abstract
The article offers information about the importance of understanding the processes that explain heterogeneity in scaling behavior or mortality to further advance urban health policies. It mentions about the sexually transmitted infections and homicides showed higher rates in larger cities of U.S. It discusses that tuberculosis mortality in U.S. and Mexican cities.
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- 2021
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