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Lessons from the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic response in China, Italy, and the U.S.: a guide for Africa and low- and middle-income countries

open access: yesGlobal Health Journal, 2021
Africa can be “left behind” after other advanced continents recover from the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic as reflected by the global pandemic of HIV/AIDS.
Isaac Iyinoluwa Olufadewa   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Empowering and conquering infirmity of visually impaired using AI‐technology equipped with object detection and real‐time voice feedback system in healthcare application

open access: yesCAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract The Internet of Things is emerging as a crucial technology in aiding humans and making their lives easier. Among the human population, a large percentage of people suffer from disabilities resulting in challenges in everyday life particularly people with visual disabilities.
Hania Tarik   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Incidence and Mortality from a Neglected Tropical Disease (Rabies) in 28 African Countries

open access: yesFolia Veterinaria, 2020
Rabies, a zoonotic disease, is one of the deadliest and most serious threats to public health as it has an almost 100 % case fatality rate. The global estimated mortality of the virus is between 40,000 to 70,000 deaths annually with most of the death ...
Adesina M. A.   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

A child of the slums [PDF]

open access: yesScience, 2020
I scrambled up a ladder to the tin roof of our house, clutching a book about the evolution of animals. I was 10 years old, and I'd just finished cooking dinner for my entire family—a task that was my daily responsibility. From my perch, I could look out at the slum where we lived in a small town in India.
openaire   +2 more sources

Slums, Slum Dwellers, and Health

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Public Health, 2003
Although this issue of the Journal is focused on the connections between the built environment and health in the developed world these links are even more relevant in the developing world where billions of the world’s poor live in precarious housing submarkets known as slums. (excerpt)
Elliott D, Sclar, Mary E, Northridge
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Slum Tourism: Representing and Interpreting Reality in City

open access: yesIndonesian Journal of Tourism and Leisure, 2023
Slum areas are often seen in urban spatial policy gaps. The slum area becomes a dilemma, it portrays the unsuccessful management of a city area, on the other hand the reality of the city has the potential to become slum area tourism as an alternative ...
Tatang Rusata   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Challenges faced by elderly patients with cancer in low-and-middle-income countries during the COVID-19 pandemic

open access: yesSouth Sudan Medical Journal, 2021
Studies have shown that elderly people with co-morbidities are at a higher risk of dying from the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The situation is worse for the 70% of the elderly population who reside in low-and-middle income countries (LMICs) with poor access to ...
Isaac Olufadewa   +4 more
doaj  

The role of the Egyptian designer in the development of slums And the development of design vocabulary for service areas as one of the most important axes of sustainable development (A case study for the Umm Bayoumi area - Umm al-Dunya Square - Qalyubia Governorate) [PDF]

open access: yesMaǧallaẗ Al-Turāṯ wa Al-Taṣmīm, 2022
Comprehensive urban development and the elimination of slums is the state’s strategy for years, during which it has achieved many achievements through well-thought-out plans carried out by the Slum Development Fund to make Egypt free from unsafe slums ...
sherif abo el saadat   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Prevalence and associated factors of domestic violence among married women in an urban slum in South India

open access: yesJournal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2022
Introduction: Domestic violence (DV) is a public health problem with an estimated global prevalence of 35%. The prevalence rate of spousal domestic violence in Telangana is 36.4% which is higher than the national average of 25.3%.
Biranchi N Das   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

ADVERSITIES AND COPPING MECHANISMS OF SLUM AREA RESIDENTS IN GONDAR CITY; NORTH WEST ETHIOPIA [PDF]

open access: yesInnovative Issues and Approaches in Social Sciences, 2021
The expansion of slum areas have been one of the critical challenges manifested with the rapid urbanization of the global south countries. As one of the metropolitan cities in Ethiopia, Gondar city experienced this problem for long time.
Alemayehu Mulat Liyew
doaj   +1 more source

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