Katherine Pérez

Biographic Data

ID4263618
NAMEKatherine Pérez
GIVEN NAMESKatherine
FAMILY NAMEPérez
SIGNATUREPEREZ K
AFFILIATIONSAgència de Salut Pública de Catalunya
ORCID0000-0001-5892-2807
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS42
TOTAL CITATIONS26
AUTHOR COUNT42
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1994
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • La crisis del derecho a la vivienda y su impacto en la salud

    Open AccessCarme Borrell, Jean Carrere et al.ARTICLEGaceta Sanitaria2026

  • Infrastructures of housing with care in later life

    Open AccessIrene Macaya, Xavier Continente et al.ARTICLECities2026

    Introduction Demographic change intersects with increasingly mercantilized housing systems, while a broader care crisis challenges existing welfare arrangements. In Barcelona, service-integrated housing for older people (SIHFOP) was developed as an alternative model combining self-contained apartments with integrated services and shared common spaces, aiming to enhance wellbeing and autonomy in later life. Objective To examine the effects of the …

  • “The whole building is my home”

    Open AccessAlexia Reyes, Carme Borrell et al.ARTICLEWellbeing Space and Society2026

    Housing is widely recognized as both a physical and a social determinant of health, with housing conditions significantly affecting individuals’ physical and mental well-being. In Catalonia, cooperative housing under the grant-of-use model has expanded as an alternative to traditional ownership and rental arrangements. In this model, residents hold usage rights to their dwellings without individual ownership, and the dwellings are collectively ma…

  • Years of Providing Evidence on Road Safety Interventions at the City Level

    Open AccessKatherine Pérez, Elena Santamariña-Rubio et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2025

    Road traffic injuries are a significant public health concern, ranking among the leading causes of mortality and disability-adjusted life years lost globally, especially among the young population. Traditionally, road safety has been approached predominantly from a healthcare standpoint, with limited interventions from a comprehensive public health perspective. In Barcelona, the Agència de Salut Pública (Public Health Agency) has been monitoring …

  • Desigualdades en El Uso De Tecnología Y Dispositivos Digitales en Adolescentes De Barcelona

    Open AccessEsther Sánchez, E Sánchez-Ledesma et al.ARTICLEGaceta Sanitaria2025

  • Twenty years evaluating the health impact of urban policies in the city of Barcelona

    Open AccessMaría J López, Katherine Pérez et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy2025

  • Environmental and health effects of the Barcelona superblocks

    Open AccessKatherine Pérez, Laia Palència et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    Although on a small scale, this evaluation of the environmental, and health effects of the superblocks provides support for expanding the model to other areas of the city

  • Territorial and social inequalities in mental distress and self-perceived health among schooled adolescents

    Open AccessHelena González-Casals, Carmen Vives-Cases et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    Adolescents' overall health is associated to factors such as gender, sexual orientation, migration status, socioeconomic position, bullying victimization, and problematic internet use. This study underscores the importance of taking a holistic approach when developing preventive and promotion strategies for adolescent health, addressing different levels of intervention while focusing on the most vulnerable populations

  • How an urban regeneration programme impact people’s health and wellbeing

    Open AccessMaider Urtaran-Laresgoiti, Ana M Novoa et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    The results are consistent with previous quantitative health evaluations and provide deeper insight into the changes inside urban regeneration programmes that drive the impact on health. Finally, it provides guidance for designing new programmes considering age and gender

  • Socioeconomic characteristics, health and wellbeing of nonbinary adolescents in a Southern European City

    Open AccessLucía Artazcoz, Jean Carrere et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    Cisgender girls and, especially, nonbinary adolescents report lower well-being compared to cisgender boys across a range of well-being domains. These findings highlight the importance of expanding research on nonbinary adolescents and incorporating questions about gender identity in health surveys, while also distinguishing between cisgender boys and girls. Additionally, targeted interventions are essential to support young people in expressing a…

  • Is living close to a drug treatment centre associated with stigma

    Open AccessXavier Bartoll-Roca, María Gabriela Barbaglia et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Drug…2025

    Public stigma in the city is high and increases with proximity to a drug treatment centre, especially among groups that exhibit low levels of stigma at the city level. Identifying social groups showing high levels of "not in my back yard"-related stigma may help to redesign harm reduction interventions focusing on specific groups

  • Long-term effects of urban renewal on health and health inequalities

    Roshanak Mehdipanah, Katherine Pérez et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2025References: 31

    INTRODUCTION: Few studies exist examining the long-term effects of urban renewal programmes on health. The purpose of this study is to examine the long-term effects of an urban renewal programme on the health and health inequality outcomes of residents living in the neighbourhoods intervened in Barcelona city by the Neighbourhoods Law (NL), while comparing them to a comparison group of non-intervention neighbourhoods with similar socioeconomic st…

  • City PROFILE

    Open AccessCarme Borrell, Jean Carrere et al.ARTICLECities2025References: 1

  • Grant-of-use cooperative housing and its relation with health and wellbeing

    Open AccessAlexia Reyes, Ana M Novoa et al.ARTICLECities2025Cited by: 1References: 1

  • An urban intervention to transform the school surroundings in Barcelona

    Open AccessCarlos Lopez-Muley, Xavier Continente et al.ARTICLECities2025References: 1

  • Cooperative housing under a grant-of-use in Catalonia and health

    Open AccessAlexia Reyes, Irene Macaya Munell et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2024

    Cooperative housing under a grant-of-use in Catalonia appears promising for improving health and living conditions. Further research is warranted to explore its full potential as an alternative amid housing challenges in the region

  • Household Economic Hardship and Child Mental Health

    Open AccessXavier Bartoll-Roca, Gemma Serral et al.ARTICLESocial Indicators Research2024References: 10

  • Time poverty, health and health-related behaviours in a Southern European city

    Lucía Artazcoz, Inés Cortés et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2024References: 35

    BACKGROUND: Despite its growing interest, time poverty is a neglected issue in public health analysis and policies. The objectives of this study were: (1) to analyse gender differences in paid, unpaid and total working time; (2) to identify gender differences in the factors related to time poverty; and (3) to examine gender differences in the relationship between time poverty, health and health-related behaviours in the city of Barcelona (Spain).…

  • Trends and inequalities in (healthy) life expectancy by neighbourhood during the Covid-19 epidemic in Barcelona

    Open AccessXavier Bartoll-Roca, Laia Palència et al.ARTICLEGaceta Sanitaria2023

    To analyse the trend in life expectancy (LE), healthy life expectancy (HLE) and socio-economic inequalities by neighbourhood in Barcelona from the pre-pandemic period (2018-2019) to the pandemic period (2020-2021). LE and HLE at birth were computed using the municipal register of inhabitants and quality of life (EuroQol) from the Barcelona Health Survey of 2016. Inequalities were assessed with the gap between quantiles of neighbourhood income. In…

  • A City Surveillance System for Social Health Inequalities

    Open AccessCarme Borrell, Laia Palència et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2023

    The methodology used to implement the Surveillance System can be used to implement similar systems in other urban areas around the world

  • Effectiveness of a Road Traffic Injury Prevention Intervention in Reducing Pedestrian Injuries, Barcelona, Spain, 2002–2019

    Katherine Pérez, Elena Santamariña-Rubio et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2023References: 10

    This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of the Safe Routes to School (SRTS) intervention in Barcelona, Spain, at reducing the number of road traffic collisions and injuries in the school environment. It was a pre–post, quasi-experimental evaluation with a matched comparison group. Road traffic injuries were significantly reduced in the intervention schools—especially among school-age pedestrians—but not in the comparison schools. The SRTS …

  • Inequities in the distribution of Covid-19

    Open AccessHugo Vásquez-Vera, Brenda Biaani León-Gómez et al.ARTICLEGaceta Sanitaria2022

    The COVID-19 pandemic currently affects populations worldwide. Although everyone is susceptible to the virus, there are numerous accounts of the pandemic having a greater impact on lower socioeconomic groups and minorities, which is a ubiquitous phenomenon. It is essential for public health administrations and governments to uncover and understanding these inequities to develop proper intersectoral policies to tackle this crisis. Therefore, devel…

  • Inequalities in life expectancy by educational level and its decomposition in Barcelona, 2004-2018

    Open AccessXavier Bartoll-Roca, Maica Rodriguez‐sanz et al.ARTICLEGaceta Sanitaria2022

    To analyse the gap in life expectancy by educational level in the city of Barcelona from 2004 to 2018 and to decompose this gap by age and causes of death. We computed abridged life tables at the age of 25 years by sex from 2004 to 2018 using standard methods. Educational level was categorised in two groups (lower secondary or less vs. upper secondary or higher education). The life expectancy gap was further decomposed by age and by causes of dea…

  • Neighbourhood income inequalities in mental health in Barcelona 2001-2016

    Open AccessXavier Bartoll-Roca, Marc Marí-Dell’olmo et al.ARTICLEGaceta Sanitaria2022

    Obtaining reliable health estimates at the small area level (such as neighbourhoods) using survey data usually poses the problem of small sample sizes. To overcome this limitation, we explored smoothing techniques in order to estimate poor mental health prevalence at the neighbourhood level and analyse its profile by income in Barcelona city (Spain). A Bayesian smoothing model with a logit-normal transformation was applied to four repeated cross-…

  • Tackling health inequalities in a public health organization

    Open AccessGloria Pérez, M Isabel Pasarín et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2022

    The participation of ASPB public health professionals and staff allowed the organization to design a shared plan of actions to address health inequalities. This experience could be useful for other municipalities whose political agendas include tackling inequalities in health