Referral experiences of healthcare consumers: results from a cross-sectional study in urban slums in southeast Nigeria [PDF]
Frontiers in Public HealthIntroductionThe inadequate referral system in Nigeria is partly due to the proliferation of informal healthcare providers (IHPs) and constraints within formal providers in urban slums.
Chinelo Obi +10 more
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Community leaders' perspectives on linking formal and informal health providers in Nigerian urban slums: a qualitative study [PDF]
Discover Social Science and HealthIntroduction Poor living conditions and poverty in urban slums mean that informal health providers (IHPs) often dominate health service provision in such settings.
Benard Okechi +5 more
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The role of the Egyptian designer in the development of slums And the development of design vocabulary for service areas as one of the most important axes of sustainable development (A case study for the Umm Bayoumi area - Umm al-Dunya Square - Qalyubia Governorate) [PDF]
Maǧallaẗ Al-Turāṯ wa Al-Taṣmīm, 2022 Comprehensive urban development and the elimination of slums is the state’s strategy for years, during which it has achieved many achievements through well-thought-out plans carried out by the Slum Development Fund to make Egypt free from unsafe slums ...
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Urbanisation and Growth of Slum Population in Jharkhand: A Spatial Analysis
Space and Culture, India, 2015 The objective of this paper is to examine the relation between the pace of urbanisation and growth of slum population in Jharkhand. This paper also attempts to analyse the trends and patterns of growth of slum population at the district level in ...
Rahul Harshwardhan, V K Tripathy
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Net benefits of urban slums redevelopment policies on the value of adjacent residential property
International Journal of Strategic Property Management, 2021 Over time, the government of Pakistan introduced several strategies to deal with the issue of slums in its capital city, Islamabad. Contrary to the traditional strategies that primarily focus on the tenure security of occupants, the strategy of slum ...
Touseef Hussain, Zou Wei
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IDENTIFYING AND MAPPING OF SLUMS IN PUNE CITY USING GEOSPATIAL TECHNIQUES [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2019 In India, rapid growth of slums in urban areas, especially in metropolitan cities, has become a major problem for the planners and decision-makers. The slum expansion is mainly due to the rural-urban migration and pressure of the population on un-used ...
N. Mundhe, N. Mundhe
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BMC Public Health, 2009 Background Smoking is one of the leading causes of premature death particularly in developing countries. The prevalence of smoking is high among the general male population in Bangladesh.
Kraemer Alexander +3 more
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Indian Heart Journal, 2023 Introduction: Hypertension is the leading risk factor for global disease burden. Inequalities in health among urban poor and non-poor is a matter of concern. The current study was done to estimate the prevalence of hypertension and to describe the health
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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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Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2023 Background: Appropriate health-seeking behaviour could help in reducing child mortality and morbidity. Information on social factors of mortality and health-seeking behaviours of caregivers of under-5 children from slums of Indian cities is minimal in ...
Parasuraman Ganeshkumar +8 more
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