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MRIMS Journal of Health Sciences, 2022 Background: A mosquito-borne disease, dengue is present in many places of India since a long time. Studies have shown that, despite many efforts, the knowledge and practices of people, especially urban slum dwellers remain low.
K M Lavanya +3 more
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Indian Journal of Dental Research, 2012 Background: Tobacco use is reported to be rampant in urban slums in developing countries. Demographical variations in tobacco use between males living in urban slums vs those living in non-slum areas in India has not been reported, and this study was ...
T Rooban +3 more
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Severe malnutrition in children presenting to health facilities in an urban slum in Bangladesh [PDF]
, 2012 SETTING: An urban slum in Kamrangirchar, Bangladesh. OBJECTIVES: Among children aged 6–59 months seeking medical care from the two Médecins Sans Frontières-supported primary health centres, to determine 1) the prevalence of severe acute malnutrition (SAM)
Alders, P +12 more
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PLOS Global Public Health, 2022 Oral diseases constitute a neglected epidemic in Low and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs). An understanding of its distribution and severity in different settings can aid the planning of preventive and therapeutic services.
Mary E Osuh +11 more
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Design Exchanges in Mid-Twentieth Century Buenos Aires: The Programme Parque Almirante Brown and its Process of Creative Appropriation [PDF]
, 2017 The file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final version can be found by following the DOI link.This article offers a critical analysis of planning and housing design in mid-twentieth century Buenos ...
Massidda, Adriana Laura
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DEVELOPING FRAMEWORK FOR IMPROVING DISASTER RESILIENCE IN URBAN SLUM UPGRADING
Nature: National Academic Journal of Architecture, 2019 _ Disaster resilience has become an important urban agenda due to the increasing disaster intensity and massive impacts. Developing framework for measuring disaster resilience is a critical policy particularly for urban slum area.
Fahmyddin A'raaf Tauhid
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Journal of Applied Engineering and Technological Science, 2022 Sidenreng Rappang Regency, South Sulawesi Province was recorded to be ranked 2nd (second) as the regency/city with the highest slum area in South Sulawesi in 2020.The development of the Sidenreng Rappang Regency area as a strategic agribusiness center ...
Rika Riyanti Anwar +2 more
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Quantifying slum electrification in India and explaining local variation [PDF]
, 2015 Unreliable electricity supply is a major obstacle to economic development in countries such as India. While electricity problems in the rural areas are widely recognized, scholars have yet to analyze the situation in urban slums.
Aklin, Michaël +3 more
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Zika: A scourge in urban slums
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2017 Author(s): Snyder, Robert E; Boone, Claire E; Cardoso, Claudete A Araujo; Aguiar-Alves, Fabio; Neves, Felipe PG; Riley, Lee ...
Robert E. Snyder +5 more
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Intersectional forces of urban inequality and the global HIV pandemic: a retrospective analysis
BMJ Global HealthTo determine how the intersection of increased urban growth and poverty has impacted HIV incidence and prevalence, given growing HIV inequalities globally. Retrospective analysis using combined data from five publicly available, population-level datasets
Janan Dietrich +15 more
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