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Spatiotemporal Evolution and Influential Factors of Rural Poverty in Poverty-Stricken Areas of Guizhou Province: Implications for Consolidating the Achievements of Poverty Alleviation

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2022
China has made remarkable reductions in absolute poverty. However, pressing questions remain of how to consolidate the existing achievements of poverty alleviation and prevent rural households from regressing back into poverty, especially in continuously
Guie Li, Yangyang Jiao, Jie Li, Qingwu Yan   +3 more
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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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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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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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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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Evaluation Program in Handling Cities without Slum Settlements (Kotaku) in Sukabumi City

Publik, 2023
This study focuses on evaluating the city program policy without slums (kotaku) in Sukabumi City. In evaluation theory there are indicators to regulate the course of the program or program implementation in a good and comprehensive manner by producing ...
Alfian Dwi Cahya, Andi Mulyadi, Rizki Hegia Sampurna   +2 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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Health care utilization and its association with sociodemographic factors among slum‐dwellers with type 2 diabetes in Tabriz, Iran: A cross‐sectional study

Health Science Reports, 2023
Background and Aims Slums are known as growing underprivileged areas. One of the health adverse effects of slum‐dwelling is health care underutilization. Management of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) requires an appropriate utilization.
Fawzieh Ghammari, Habib Jalilian, Rahim Khodayari‐zarnaq, Masumeh Gholizadeh   +3 more
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The slums in the mirror of health: A systematic review analysis from Iran

International Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2022
Background: One billion worldwide population is living in slum areas that mostly accompanied with high rates of poverty, illiteracy, unemployment, unhealthy situation, and inappropriate health-care services.
Azam Raoofi, Manzar Amirkhani, Maryam Monjazeb, Niloofar Peykari   +3 more
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