Oviedo-Solís, Cecilia Isabel Hernández-Alcaraz, César Sánchez-Ortíz, Néstor Alonso López-Olmedo, Nancy Jáuregui, Alejandra Barquera, Simón
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Frontiers in Public Health
Background Diet is one of the leading risk factors for non-communicable diseases and is related to sociodemographic and lifestyle factors, including sex. These associations vary across populations. We aimed to investigate which factors are associated with dietary patterns among adults living in Mexico City by sex. Methods We used data from the Mexi...
Arroyo-Lambaer, Denise Zambrano, Luis Rivas, Miguel I. Vázquez-Mendoza, Diana Laura Figueroa, Fernanda Puente-Uribe, Martha B. Espinosa-García, Ana C. Tapia-Palacios, Marco A. Mazari-Hiriart, Marisa Revollo-Fernández, Daniel
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Frontiers in Sustainable Cities
The current global situation with a dominant economic development model producing social inequality, increment and intensification of urbanization has generated severe environmental degradation and an associated increase in the likelihood of pandemics. New strategies that strengthen sustainable food production are urgent in highly unequal countries...
Schiavo, Benedetto Morton-Bermea, Ofelia Salgado-Martínez, Elias García-Martínez, Rocío Hernández-Álvarez, Elizabeth
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Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
Emissions of gaseous elemental mercury (GEM or Hg0) from different sources in urban areas are important subjects for environmental investigations. In this study, atmospheric Hg measurements were conducted to investigate air pollution in the urban environment by carrying out several mobile surveys in Mexico City. This work presents atmospheric conce...
de Anda-Jáuregui, Guillermo García-García, Lourdes Hernández-Lemus, Enrique
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BMC Public Health
Background During the COVID-19 pandemic, the slope of the epidemic curve in Mexico City has been quite unstable. Changes in human activity led to changes in epidemic activity, hampering attempts at economic and general reactivation of the city. Methods We have predicted that where a fraction of the population above a certain threshold returns to th...
Lara-Pulido, Jose Alberto Martinez-Cruz, Adan L
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Transportation
Commuting is expensive in megacities of emerging economies. By decreasing work-related trips, teleworking may reduce congestion and commuting time. Taking Mexico City's office workers' as case study, this paper reports findings from a discrete choice experiment (DCE) exploring willingness to see a cut in monthly paycheck in exchange for teleworking...
Chen, Yu Bilton, Amy M.
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Frontiers in Sustainable Cities
With a population of over 22 million, Mexico City's metropolitan area is facing enormous water security challenges. Its supply heavily relies on overdraft of groundwater and import from neighboring basins, leading to problems such as subsidence and raising concern over its sustainability. The impacts of the water stress in Mexico City are highly un...
Reyes, Víctor Suárez, Manuel
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Heliyon
The aim of this research is to find if there is a relationship between firm location and road class, and whether location decisions regarding road class affect the probability of firm survival. We examine the location of 35 selected types of businesses in Mexico City in four road classes. We develop a location preference coefficient that indicates ...
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Exposures to fine particulate matter PM2.5 are associated with Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s (AD, PD) and TDP-43 pathology in young Metropolitan Mexico City (MMC) residents. High-resolution structural T1-weighted brain MRI and/or Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) data were examined in 302 volunteers age 32.7 ± 6.0 years old. We used multivariate line...
Aguilar, Adrian Guillermo Flores, Miguel Angel Lara, Luis Fernando
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Frontiers in Sustainable Cities
There is a great deal of concern over the scattered, fragmented expansion of cities, particularly in developing countries. This expansion accelerates the peri-urbanization processes expressed in a range of land uses, often with a concentration of the poor in peripheries with an acute shortage of services coupled with profound land-use changes, with...
Antonio-Villa, Neftali Eduardo Fernandez-Chirino, Luisa Pisanty-Alatorre, Julio Mancilla-Galindo, Javier Kammar-García, Ashuin Vargas-Vázquez, Arsenio González-Díaz, Armando Fermín-Martínez, Carlos A Márquez-Salinas, Alejandro Guerra, Enrique C
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Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
The impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in Mexico City has been sharp, as several social inequalities at all levels coexist. Here we conducted an in-depth evaluation of the impact of individual and municipal-level social inequalities on the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico City. We analyzed suspected severe acute respiratory syndr...
