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Slums and Pandemics

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2020
How do slums shape the economic and health dynamics of pandemics? A difference-in-differences analysis using millions of mobile phones in Brazil shows that residents of overcrowded slums engaged in less social distancing after the outbreak of Covid-19. We develop and calibrate a choice-theoretic equilibrium model in which individuals are heterogeneous ...
Luiz Brotherhood   +3 more
openaire   +4 more sources

The study of slums as social and physical constructs: challenges and emerging research opportunities

open access: yesRegional Studies, Regional Science, 2016
Over 1 billion people currently live in slums, with the number of slum dwellers only expected to grow in the coming decades. The vast majority of slums are located in and around urban centres in the less economically developed countries, which are also ...
Ron Mahabir   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Spatial distribution of slums and its association with disaster vulnerability in Yogyakarta City [PDF]

open access: yesE3S Web of Conferences, 2020
Slums commonly distributed in susceptible environment or in location that occupied by low economic household, especially in urban areas. Empirically, in Indonesia, the data about distribution and total area of slums is quite hard to be acquired, since ...
Marwasta Djaka, Rahayu Theresia D. K.
doaj   +1 more source

Uncontrolled hypertension among patients with comorbidities in sub-Saharan Africa: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis

open access: yesSystematic Reviews, 2020
Background Uncontrolled hypertension is the most important risk factor and leading cause of cardiovascular diseases. It is predicted that the number of people with hypertension will increase, and a large proportion of this increase will occur in ...
Shukri F. Mohamed   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Misperceptions of Predominant Slum Locations? Spatial Analysis of Slum Locations in Terms of Topography Based on Earth Observation Data

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2020
Slums are a physical expression of poverty and inequality in cities. According to the UN definition, this inequality is, e.g., reflected in the fact that slums are much more often located in hazardous zones.
Inken Müller   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Study to Assess the Immunisation Status and the Factors Responsible For Incomplete Immunization amongst Children in Urban Slums

open access: yesNational Journal of Community Medicine, 2021
Background: As per the WHO estimates more than a billion children were vaccinated over the last decade. Currently immunization prevents 2- 3 million deaths every year. Health is a major economic issue for slum residents.
Sridevi NH, Praveen Kumar N, Swathi HN
doaj   +1 more source

A protocol for a multi-site, spatially-referenced household survey in slum settings: methods for access, sampling frame construction, sampling, and field data collection

open access: yesBMC Medical Research Methodology, 2019
Background Household surveys are a key epidemiological, medical, and social research method. In poor urban environments, such as slums, censuses can often be out-of-date or fail to record transient residents, maps may be incomplete, and access to sites ...
Improving Health in Slums Collaborative
doaj   +1 more source

Pharmacies in informal settlements: a retrospective, cross-sectional household and health facility survey in four countries

open access: yesBMC Health Services Research, 2021
Background Slums or informal settlements characterize most large cities in LMIC. Previous evidence suggests pharmacies may be the most frequently used source of primary care in LMICs but that pharmacy services are of variable quality.
Improving Health in Slums Collaborative   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Prevalence and correlates of smoking among urban adult men in Bangladesh: slum versus non-slum comparison

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2009
Background Smoking is one of the leading causes of premature death particularly in developing countries. The prevalence of smoking is high among the general male population in Bangladesh.
Kraemer Alexander   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Identification of Settlements Quality in Pekanbaru Slums

open access: yesForum Geografi, 2017
One of human basic needs is housing with high competitive situation caused increasing need of housing, spatial restriction, and economics factors. These influence to decreasing of housing quality then consequence to slums settlement.
M. Amin Sunarhadi, D Dahroni, P Priyono
doaj   +1 more source

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