Empowerment of urban poor neighborhoods (Case study: Ismail Abad neighborhood, District 19 of Tehran Municipality) [PDF]
نشریه جغرافیا و برنامهریزی, 2022 IntroductionTypically, in developing countries, urban growth exceeds the capacity of governments and municipalities to provide services and infrastructure suitable for the population.
Esmail Isazade +2 more
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Size distributions of slums across the globe using different data and classification methods
European Journal of Remote Sensing, 2019 More than 900 million people worldwide live in slums. These slums mainly can be found in cities of the global south and are characterized by poor living conditions and usually insufficient access to basic infrastructure such as water or energy.
John Friesen +3 more
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Reproductive Health, 2020 Background Addressing adolescents’ sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) requires an understanding of the socio-cultural and spatial settings within which they live.
Y. Wado +3 more
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Non-communicable diseases in Indian slums: re-framing the Social Determinants of Health
Global Health Action, 2018 Background: The epidemic of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in slums has pushed its residents to heightened vulnerability. The Social Determinants of Health (SDH) framework has been used to understand the social dynamics and impact of NCDs, especially ...
Lily Beth Lumagbas +5 more
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Towards Understanding Fire Causes in Informal Settlements Based on Inhabitant Risk Perception
Fire, 2021 Informal settlements (ISs) are a high-risk environment in which fires are often seen. In 2019 alone, 5544 IS fires were reported in South Africa. One of the main problems, when investigating an IS fire, is determining the fire cause. In the last 15 years,
Natalia Flores Quiroz +2 more
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PLoS ONE, 2019 Postpartum depression (PPD) is a serious pubic health concern and known to have the adverse effects on mother’s perinatal wellbeing; and child’s physical and cognitive development.
Rashidul Azad +8 more
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Building the City: From Slums to a Modern Metropolis
The Review of Economic Studies, 2020 We model the building of a city, estimate parameters of the model, and calculate welfare losses from institutional frictions encountered in changing land-use.
J. Henderson, Tanner Regan, A. Venables
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The Temporal Dynamics of Slums Employing a CNN-Based Change Detection Approach
Remote Sensing, 2019 Along with rapid urbanization, the growth and persistence of slums is a global challenge. While remote sensing imagery is increasingly used for producing slum maps, only a few studies have analyzed their temporal dynamics.
Ruoyun Liu, M. Kuffer, C. Persello
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Cognitive Status and Risk Factors for Cognitive Impairment in Dialysis Patients
Общая реаниматология, 2020 The number of dialysis patients is increasing every year and is estimated to be more than 2 million, with an annual increase of 6–12% in dialysis programs. There is a high correlation between cognitive impairment and mortality in dialysis patients, which
A. Е. Khrulev +6 more
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Sexuality in Adolescents: have we Explored Enough! A Cross-sectional Study to Explore Adolescent Health in a City Slum in Northern India [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2014 Context: Adolescent health is a relatively new focus area of India’s National health program. However, little evidence is available for the existing problems especially in adolescent slum population.
Timsi Jain, Yogesh Mohan
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