Municipality of Seville-Scores for the urban environment

Municipality of Seville-Scores for the urban environment

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Analyses of health and mortality disparities between today's urban and rural populations appear to be exclusively focused on vastly urbanising countries. By incorporating environmental data at census tract level and accounting for within‐area homogeneity, this work attempts to extend classic rural–urban comparisons. Geographical information is link...

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