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Household determinants of healthcare utilisation in three informal settlements in Freetown, Sierra Leone: a cross-sectional survey. [PDF]

BMJ Open
Objective Healthcare utilisation (HU) is key to improving the health of residents in urban informal settlements. This study aimed to explore household-level factors influencing HU among informal settlement households in Freetown, Sierra Leone.Design ...
Sesay S, Sesay IJ, Tengbe SM, Wurie H, Fullah S, Vangahun D, Gandi I, Teixeira de Siqueira Filha N, Lakshman RWD, Conteh A, Saidu S, Koroma B, Mansaray B, Elsey H, Whittaker L, Dean L, Wiltgen Georgi N, Nganda M, Refell F, MacCarthy J, Leyland AH, Tolhurst R, Kibuchi E.   +22 more
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Collaborating With Communities: Citizen Science Flood Monitoring in Urban Informal Settlements

Urban Planning, 2021
Concerns regarding the impacts of climate change on marginalised communities in the Global South have led to calls for affected communities to be more active as agents in the process of planning for climate change.
Erich Wolff, Matthew French, Noor Ilhamsyah, Mere Jane Sawailau, Diego Ramírez-Lovering   +4 more
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Mapping and Assessment of Housing Informality Using Object-Based Image Analysis: A Review

Urban Science, 2023
Research on the detection of informal settlements has increased in the past three decades owing to the availability of high- to very-high-spatial-resolution satellite imagery.
Naledzani Mudau, Paidamwoyo Mhangara
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Governance Strategies for Informal Settlements in China: The Case of Guangzhou

Buildings, 2022
Informal settlements in developing countries have attracted widespread attention, and existing research is mainly concerned with the causes and evolution of informal settlements.
Jinkun Yang, Yayin Cai, Haitao Ma, Lisheng Weng   +3 more
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Understanding the factors influencing the spatial dynamics of informal settlements: The case of Enugu City, Nigeria

Town and Regional Planning, 2021
The need to address the challenge of housing demand in cities has not recorded much success. Informal settlements keep springing up in cities of developing countries in a bid to meet this need.
Chioma John-Nsa
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A Validated Framework for Characterising Informal Settlements: Two Cases from Greater Cairo, Egypt

Buildings, 2023
There have been significant research studies on informal settlements within various disciplines including sociology, economy, politics, governance, and urbanism. However, little is known about the complexity and dynamism of informal settlements.
Asser Bakhaty, Ashraf M. Salama, Branka Dimitrijević   +2 more
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Combining Object-Based Machine Learning with Long-Term Time-Series Analysis for Informal Settlement Identification

Remote Sensing, 2022
Informal settlement mapping is essential for planning, as well as resource and utility management. Developing efficient ways of determining the properties of informal settlements (when, where, and who) is critical for upgrading services and planning ...
Ahmad Fallatah, Simon Jones, Luke Wallace, David Mitchell   +3 more
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Towards Strategic Planning Implementation for Egyptian Cities

Environmental Science and Sustainable Development, 2018
Strategic urban planning plays a real and significant role in developing the urban areas worldwide because it helps in mitigating the loss of lands; especially in diversion of urban growth away from the “agricultural lands”.
Marwa Ahmed Soliman
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Quality of Care in Family Planning Services: Differences Between Formal and Informal Settlements of Kira Municipality, Uganda

Frontiers in Global Women's Health, 2021
Background: Quality of care (QoC) of family planning (FP) affects contraceptive use, and it varies across types of urban settlement. This study assesses the difference in service delivery point (SDP) structural and process factors between formal and ...
Zubair Lukyamuzi, Moses Tetui, Moses Tetui, Moses Tetui, Osvaldo Fonseca-Rodríguez, Osvaldo Fonseca-Rodríguez, Lynn Atuyambe, Fredrick Edward Makumbi, Mazen Baroudi   +8 more
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The Inter/Transdisciplinary Framework for Urban Governance Intervention in the Egyptian Informal Settlements

Buildings, 2023
There is a need to understand the complex nature of informal settlements to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 11: “Making cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable”.
Eman El Nachar, Doaa Abouelmagd
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