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Slums on Screen

, 2016
Despite the rise of the ‘cinematic city’ as an acknowledged paradigm in film and urban studies, ‘cinematic slums’ have remained severely under-researched, even though near to one billion people – almost one third of the global urban population – call slums their home. Accordingly, the author asks how this hard and unyielding way of
Igor Krstić
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Empowering and conquering infirmity of visually impaired using AI‐technology equipped with object detection and real‐time voice feedback system in healthcare application

CAAI 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, Shahzad Hassan, Rizwan Ali Naqvi, Saddaf Rubab, Usman Tariq, Monia Hamdi, Hela Elmannai, Ye Jin Kim, Jae‐Hyuk Cha   +8 more
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The burden of disease profile of residents of Nairobi's slums: results from a demographic surveillance system. [PDF]

, 2008
BACKGROUND: With increasing urbanization in sub-Saharan Africa and poor economic performance, the growth of slums is unavoidable. About 71% of urban residents in Kenya live in slums. Slums are characteristically unplanned, underserved by social services,
Kyobutungi, Catherine, Catherine Kyobutungi, Ezeh, Alex, Alex Ezeh, Ezeh Alex, Ziraba Abdhalah, Kyobutungi Catherine, Abdhalah Kasiira Ziraba, Yazoumé Yé, Yé Yazoumé, Ziraba, Abdhalah Kasiira, Yé, Yazoumé   +11 more
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Effectiveness of Positive Deviance, an Asset-Based Behavior Change Approach, to Improve Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Regarding Dengue in Low-Income Communities (Slums) of Islamabad, Pakistan: A Mixed-Method Study

Insects, 2022
Dengue is a mosquito-borne, viral disease that has emerged as a global health concern in recent years. In the absence of specific antiviral treatment and vaccines, prevention remains the key strategy for dengue control.
Muhammad Shafique, Muhammad Mukhtar, Chitlada Areesantichai, Usaneya Perngparn   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Protection of the Environment from Pollution due to Slums [PDF]

الرافدین للحقوق, 2020
      Slums are among the problems that many developing countries suffer from, as do some developed countries, although the dimensions of the problem differ.
Zahraa Ahmad Mohammad Tawfeeq, Alaa Hazem Jarallah Ahmed, Abdullah Salim Ghaeb Mansoor   +2 more
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Slums, Slum Dwellers, and Health

American 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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Identification of Settlements Quality in Pekanbaru Slums

Forum 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
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Voices and challenges of marginalized and vulnerable groups in urban informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya: building on a spectrum of community-based participatory research approaches

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
Urbanization is rapidly increasing across Africa, including in Nairobi, Kenya. Many people, recent migrants and long-term residents, live within dense and dynamic urban informal settlements.
Robinson Karuga, Caroline Kabaria, Ivy Chumo, Linet Okoth, Inviolata Njoroge, Lilian Otiso, Nelly Muturi, Jiban Karki, Laura Dean, Rachel Tolhurst, Rosie Steege, Kim Ozano, Sally Theobald, Blessing Mberu, Blessing Mberu   +14 more
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Fatal injuries in the slums of Nairobi and their risk factors: results from a matched case-control study. [PDF]

, 2011
Injuries contribute significantly to the rising morbidity and mortality attributable to non-communicable diseases in the developing world. Unfortunately, active injury surveillance is lacking in many developing countries, including Kenya. This study aims
Kyobutungi, Catherine, Catherine Kyobutungi, Abdhalah Kasiira Ziraba, Ziraba, Abdhalah Kasiira, Zulu, Eliya Msiyaphazi, Eliya Msiyaphazi Zulu   +5 more
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Slums and their suitability for a divorced woman to housing [PDF]

الرافدین للحقوق, 2020
The problem of the emergence of informal housing dates back to the beginnings of the twentieth century in the death in which the rapid urban expansion of cities began with the concentration of government services and interests in the main cities and the ...
Nashwan Alhalem
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