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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 +3 more
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ISPRS Int. J. Geo Inf., 2020 As an objective social phenomenon, poverty has accompanied the vicissitudes of human society, which is a chronic dilemma hindering human civilization. Remote sensing data, such as nighttime lights imagery, provides abundant poverty-related information ...
Jian-feng Yin, Yuanhong Qiu, Bin Zhang
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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 +3 more
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Spatial Measurement of Urban Poverty Areas (Case Study: Varamin City) [PDF]
اقتصاد شهریNowadays the cities of developing countries have become concentrated places of poverty and the spatial Focus of this focus is mostly on the periphery of cities. A series of factors including a Severe shortage of urban services and the lack of appropriate
Hafez Mahdnejad +3 more
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Estimating the Impacts of Bolivia’s Protected Areas on Poverty [PDF]
World Development, 2012 Summary Bolivia has experienced a rapid proliferation of protected areas over the past several decades. Using rich biophysical and socioeconomic data, we estimate the impacts of Bolivia’s protected areas on poverty between 1992 and 2001. We find no evidence that the establishment of protected areas exacerbated poverty.
Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo J +1 more
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Global air pollution exposure and poverty
Nature Communications, 2023 Air pollution is one of the leading causes of health complications and mortality worldwide, especially affecting lower-income groups, who tend to be more exposed and vulnerable. This study documents the relationship between ambient air pollution exposure
Jun Rentschler, Nadezda Leonova
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Chronic Poverty in Urban Areas [PDF]
Environment and Urbanization, 2005 FOR MANY YEARS, poverty in urban areas of Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean has been identified by spatial area (e.g. settlement, neighbourhood, inner city) as often as it has been referred to by social group (e.g. low-income women, the homeless).
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Cancer disparities related to poverty and rurality for 22 top cancers in Florida
Preventive Medicine Reports, 2022 We aimed to examine poverty and rurality as potential predictors of cancer health disparities. This cross-sectional study used data from the Florida Cancer Data System on all cancer diagnoses in the years 2014–2018 to determine age-adjusted incidence and
Jaclyn M. Hall +7 more
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Correlates of domestic violence in the urban slum of North Bengal, India [PDF]
Al Ameen Journal of Medical Sciences, 2020 Background: Domestic Violence is a social curse prevalent since long time back. Changing socioeconomic scenario due to globalization, urbanization and changing behaviour, might keep its impact on the magnitude of domestic violence.
Kuntala Ray +2 more
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Rat infestation associated with environmental deficiencies in an urban slum community with high risk of leptospirosis transmission [PDF]
Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 2017 : We analyzed environmental factors that provide food, water and harborage to rodents and the risk of household rodent infestation in a slum community with a high risk of leptospirosis transmission.
Norlan de Jesus Santos +4 more
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