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PREVALENCE AND DETERMINANTS OF MALNUTRITION AMONG BELOW FIVE AGE GROUP CHILDREN OF SLUMS IN MUMBAI CITY [PDF]
Business Excellence and Management, 2014 Child malnutrition affects on the learning abilities, physical growth and future work capacity. The incidence of child malnutrition is higher in urban slums of Mumbai city.
Sanjay RODE
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River basin flood adaptation for coastal urban slums. Mithi river basin, Dharavi slum
Ri-vista: Ricerche per la Progettazione del Paesaggio, 2023 Urban slums in developing countries host a substantial proportion of the urban population. Slums are located on land usually unsuitable for formal development, along the river basins or coastal mangroves that makes them at a greater risk of flooding ...
Anubhav Goyal +2 more
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Journal of Family and Community Medicine, 2023 BACKGROUND: The prevalence of diabetes mellitus has almost reached global epidemic proportions. Fortunately, the progress of the disease can be stemmed at the prediabetic level.
Filza Haqiq +7 more
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National Policy Coherence Counts for Reducing Inequality in Global Climate and Development Agendas
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT International institutions promote policy coherence as crucial to the effective and fair implementation of global sustainability agendas, though the evidence for its benefits is slim. We present here the first systematic cross‐country dataset on the consequences of national government efforts to promote policy coherence for vulnerable groups ...
Katherine Browne +10 more
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The difference a day can make: The temporal dynamics of drinking water access and quality in urban slums [PDF]
, 2019 In urban slums – home to approximately 1 billion people worldwide - access to clean drinking water is woefully inadequate despite the United Nations' declaration that access to safe water is a fundamental human right.
Price, Heather +2 more
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A Global Estimate of the Size and Location of Informal Settlements
Urban ScienceSlums are a structural feature of urbanization, and shifting urbanization trends underline their significance for the cities of tomorrow. Despite their importance, data and knowledge on slums are very limited.
Anthony Boanada-Fuchs +2 more
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L’expérience plurielle de la vulnérabilité au sein des bidonvilles
Populations Vulnérables, 2019 In recent decades, residential vulnerabilities have experienced a new boom. This to the point of making the Abbé Pierre foundation say that they would be 15 million people to be confronted with difficulties related to housing.
Jean-Baptiste Daubeuf
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Value in the ‘valley of the shadow of death’—When the user is no longer the value arbiter
Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.Abstract The Public Service Logic (PSL) user‐centric perspective on value creation has been one of its main critiques. Scholars argue that for some real‐world applications, such as emergency services, where users cannot engage with service offerings, the PSL must consider the roles of other service actors beyond just facilitators.
Higor Leite, Stephen Osborne
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SLUM AREA AS A TOURIST DESTINATION
Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета, 2015 The paper considers the issues of emergence and the basic stages of propagation of slums in the world. Slums have become quite common in the 19th – early 20th centuries in the major cities of the industrialized countries of Europe and North America ...
S. S. Maletin
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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.Abstract This article argues that W. E. B. Du Bois grounded his seminal conceptualisation of “the Negro church” in a Pan‐Africanist challenge to how Christian reformers and missionaries' usage of “Darkest Africa” as a metaphor for modern urban vice and poverty denigrated Africa and the African diaspora while promoting a segregated, imperialist version ...
Kai Parker
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