Evaluation of the Impact of Informal Settlements on the Physical and Mental Health of Residents—Case Study Santa Marta—Bogotá, Colombia

Camilo Alberto Torres Parra, Yelinca Nalena Saldeño Madero (), Mauricio González Méndez, Isidoro Fasolino, Noé Villegas Flores, Michele Grimaldi, Natalia Carrillo Acosta and Federica Cicalese
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Camilo Alberto Torres Parra: Civil Engineering Program of the Faculty of Engineering, Universidad Católica de Colombia, Bogotá 11112, Colombia
Yelinca Nalena Saldeño Madero: Civil Engineering Program of the Faculty of Engineering, Universidad Católica de Colombia, Bogotá 11112, Colombia
Mauricio González Méndez: School of Environmental and Rural Studies, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá 110231, Colombia
Isidoro Fasolino: Department of Civil Engineering, Universidad de Salerno, 84084 Fisciano, Italy
Noé Villegas Flores: Instituto Latinoamericano de Tecnología, Infraestructura y Territorio, Universidade Federal da Integração Latino-Americana, Foz de Iguazu 85867970, Brazil
Michele Grimaldi: Department of Civil Engineering, Universidad de Salerno, 84084 Fisciano, Italy
Natalia Carrillo Acosta: School of Environmental and Rural Studies, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá 110231, Colombia
Federica Cicalese: Department of Civil Engineering, Universidad de Salerno, 84084 Fisciano, Italy

Sustainability, 2024, vol. 16, issue 5, 1-22

Abstract: The growth of the informal city in Latin America has caused its own dynamics related to urban unsustainability due to the disorderly occupation of the territory. The precarious characteristics of informal neighborhoods have increased the mortality processes in their inhabitants, increasing the poverty and marginality indexes in Latin American urban settlements. This work was developed within the international research project “Modeling informality in Latin America based on indicators of sustainable urban development. Case study Yomasa, Bogotá-Colombia”. This work was developed under the mixed research approach which allowed focusing on a nested concurrent design of dominant model (DIAC), which was carried out in the Santa Marta sector of the locality of Ciudad Bolivar, in Bogotá Colombia, with the participation of 20 people from the studied community and supported by 16 students of Civil Engineering of the Catholic University of Colombia. The work resulted in a total of 31 indicators related to neighborhood informality, 17 impacts on the territory, and 8 pathologies, establishing the intrinsic relationship between informality, poverty, and public health of the inhabitant at the urban level.

Keywords: urban informality; public health; impact on the territory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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