<p>  </p> <p>Public health research is only beginning to recognize that the demographic presence and socio-cultural influence of religion in local geographic areas affect population health and mortality. This dissertation project expands this work to mainland China where I investigate the ecological effect of religion on the physical health and mortality of China's rapidly aging population. I emphasize religion as a socio-cultural characteristic of communities and incorporate theoretical explanations for the religion-health connection into social epidemiological frameworks. Using geographic data of religious sites in China merged with population census reports and a longitudinal survey of older adults, I apply statistical methods for analyzing spatial and multilevel data to identify patterns in health and mortality associated with the religious composition of local Chinese areas. Overall, these patterns indicate that religion is an important ecological factor affecting the health and mortality of Chinese people. Results show that the presence of Buddhism and Islam in Chinese counties and prefectures are associated with lower mortality rates but that this association is due to common links with ethnic minority populations. The presence of Buddhism and Islam in Chinese prefectures is associated with worse self-rated health, whereas the presence of Christianity and Daoism in prefectures is associated with better self-rated health. Daoism is also associated with fewer chronic illnesses. Mediation analyses, however, do not provide evidence that social participation, social support, and health behaviors link these associations. Using China as a comparative case, this study draws attention to the religious environment as an important socio-cultural health factor, even in one of the least religious and most highly regulated societies in the world. Understanding factors associated with <em>who</em> gets sick and <em>where</em> can help reduce health inequalities, identify opportunities for disease prevention, and determine where more resources are needed.</p>

El texto completo de este trabajo no está disponible en el Repositorio Académico UPC por restricciones de la casa editorial donde ha sido publicado. / Problems related to public transport and private transport in Peru are persistent. New proposals to solve them arise, currently the world of data analysis is starting in Peru, there are not many open datasets useful that allow proposing solutions in each environment. In this paper, we will collect relevant data of the transport located in a province of Peru with more than 1000 users involved, restricted by a delimited geographic area and with 2 years of operations and more than 3000 transport services tracked. In this way, we highlight the importance of the data, the possible potential uses within the transport, and a case of use of the collected dataset. / Revisión por pares