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Health and health-related indicators in slum, rural, and urban communities: a comparative analysis [PDF]
Global Health Action, 2016 Background: It is generally assumed that urban slum residents have worse health status when compared with other urban populations, but better health status than their rural counterparts. This belief/assumption is often because of their physical proximity
Blessing U. Mberu +3 more
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Differences in the Prevalence of Non-Communicable Disease between Slum Dwellers and the General Population in a Large Urban Area in Brazil [PDF]
Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2017 Residents of urban slums are at greater risk for disease than their non-slum dwelling urban counterparts. We sought to contrast the prevalences of selected non-communicable diseases (NCDs) between Brazilian adults living in a slum and the general ...
Robert E Snyder +2 more
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Assessing urban sustainability of slum settlements in Bangladesh: Evidence from Chittagong city
Journal of Urban Management, 2018 This paper examines the sustainability of urban development through the livelihood conditions of slum dwellers in Bangladesh. The empirical data were collected through interview schedule and FGD from 97 respondents in two slum areas of Bangladesh.
Nasir Uddin
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Journal of Urban Management, 2020 This paper scrutinizes the impact of urban microfinance on livelihood strategies of borrower slum dwellers of Dhaka, Bangladesh (with primary and secondary data).
Basharat Hossain, Syed Naimul Wadood
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INCLUSIVE URBANISATION? A STUDY OF INDIAN SLUMS [PDF]
Journal of Urban and Regional Analysis, 2021 The proliferation of slums always questions the process of inclusive urbanisation in developing countries. Given this perspective, the study aims to see the changing pattern of urbanisation in India comparing the level, concentration and growth of ...
Somenath GHOSH +2 more
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Slum Intervention in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Case for New Tourist Approach [PDF]
African Journal of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure, 2023 This study queries the notion of slum as an anathema to the growth and prosperity of cities in sub-Saharan Africa. Slum tourism is discussed as an emerging intervention to address the challenge of slums in the global south. Using ethnographic account and
Olatunbosun Lawal Sanusi +2 more
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Paragraphs Environmental Design, 2023 Consequent of urban poverty is lack of affordable housing in urban areas. It leads to the increasing slum settlements of urban inhabitants living in deprived urban areas. Typically, slum settlements were distress and discomfort aspect on social, economic
Adhi Widyarthara +2 more
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Urbanization and Slum Formation [PDF]
Journal of Urban Health, 2007 The formation of slums need not be inevitable with rapid urbanization. Such an argument appears to be contradicted by evidence of large slum populations in a large number of developing countries and particularly in rapidly urbanizing regions like Asia.
Ooi, G.L., Phua, K.H.
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The double burden of malnutrition in India: Trends and inequalities (2006-2016).
PLoS ONE, 2021 Rapid urban expansion has important health implications. This study examines trends and inequalities in undernutrition and overnutrition by gender, residence (rural, urban slum, urban non-slum), and wealth among children and adults in India.
Phuong Hong Nguyen +6 more
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Community Driven Development in Slum Management in Covid-19 Era [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2021 Covid-19 pandemic spreads more widely in Indonesia. As a developing country with high population growth, urban areas in Indonesia are getting denser along with the high urbanization rate.
Demartoto Argyo, Ramdhon Akhmad
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