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Estimation of Poverty in Small Areas [PDF]

Statistika: Statistics and Economy Journal, 2014
A qualitative techniques of poverty estimation is needed to better implement, monitor and determine national areas where support is most required. The problem of small area estimation (SAE) is the production of reliable estimates in areas with small ...
Agne Bikauskaite
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The Most Important Social Determinants of Slum Dwellers’ Health: A Scoping Review [PDF]

Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, 2021
Objectives Given the importance of social determinants of health in promoting the health of slum residents, this study was conducted with the aim of identifying the main dimensions and components of these determinants.
Farhad Nosrati Nejad, Mohammad Reza Ghamari, Seyed Hossein Mohaqeqi Kamal, Seyed Saeed Tabatabaee, Raheleh Ganjali   +4 more
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Identifying, Measuring, and Ranking Social Determinants of Health for Health Promotion Interventions Targeting Informal Settlement Residents [PDF]

Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, 2023
Objectives Considering the importance of social determinants of health (SDHs) in promoting the health of residents of informal settlements and their diversity, abundance, and breadth, this study aimed to identify, measure, and rank SDHs for health ...
Farhad Nosrati Nejad, Mohammad Reza Ghamari, Seyed Hossein Mohaqeqi Kamal, Seyed Saeed Tabatabaee   +3 more
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Community empowerment for health promotion in slums areas: A narrative review with emphasis on challenges and interventions

Journal of Education and Health Promotion, 2021
Community empowerment has been proposed since the 1980s as a way to increase people's power to influence social determinants of health. However, community empowerment for health promotion in urban slums still faces challenges.
Mohammad Hosein Mehrolhasani, Vahid Yazdi-Feyzabadi, Sara Ghasemi   +2 more
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Small area estimation of poverty indicators [PDF]

Canadian Journal of Statistics, 2010
AbstractThe authors propose to estimate nonlinear small area population parameters by using the empirical Bayes (best) method, based on a nested error model. They focus on poverty indicators as particular nonlinear parameters of interest, but the proposed methodology is applicable to general nonlinear parameters.
Rao, J.N.K., Molina, Isabel
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Protected areas and poverty [PDF]

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2015
Protected areas are controversial because they are so important for conservation and because they distribute fortune and misfortune unevenly. The nature of that distribution, as well as the terrain of protected areas themselves, have been vigorously contested.
Brockington, Daniel, Wilkie, D., D., [Unknown]   +2 more
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Evaluation of the first level of care for tuberculosis control in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 2021
Objective. Evaluate primary health care functions from the perspective of patients with tuberculosis from slums in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Methods. Cross-sectional observational study with adult patients with tuberculosis (TB) and without TB
Javier Mariani, Daniel Ferrante, Gabriel Battistella, Martín Langsam, Freddy Pérez, Alejandro Macchia   +5 more
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Factors Associated with Dyslipidemia in Adults Assisted by the Family Health Strategy in a Slum in Northeast Brazil

O Mundo da Saúde, 2023
Among the factors associated with dyslipidemia, sociodemographic characteristics stand out, such as education and income and, from this perspective, less economically favored populations, such as those living in slums, are more likely to be affected by ...
Silvia Pereira da Silva de Carvalho Melo, Eduarda Ângela Pessoa Cesse, Rachel de Sá Barreto Luna Callou Cruz, Maria Nelly Sobreira de Carvalho Barreto, Pedro Israel Cabral de Lira, Anete Rissin, Malaquias Batista Filho   +6 more
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Tobacco use pattern, dependence, oral cancer awareness and health education needs among Urban slum dwellers of Jodhpur City

International Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2022
Background: The rapid migration from rural to urban region results in mushrooming of slums in India. Urban-slums are comparatively poor vulnerable groups which are mostly affected with oral cancer due to higher exposure to risk factors like tobacco use ...
Vibha Joshi, Nitin Kumar Joshi, Komal Bajaj   +2 more
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Do Area-Based Markers of Poverty Accurately Measure Personal Poverty? [PDF]

Canadian Journal of Public Health, 2001
Area-based markers of deprivation (e.g., postal codes) are commonly used to identify groups of people with low socioeconomic status (SES); the validity of this approach, however, remains unknown. In this study, we determined the accuracy of using income quintile groups calculated on the basis of the median family income of each forward sortation area ...
D D, Sin, L W, Svenson, S F, Man
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