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Impact of I.C.D.S. on preschoolers of urban slums
The Indian Journal of Pediatrics, 1982The I.C.D.S. project was launched by Government of India, and same is operating in Bombay urban slums since April 1976. The evaluation of the work done and impact of the various services provided through I.C.D.S. is being evaluated to study the progress. The study is done in six centres selected at random.
R B, Patel, R H, Udani
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Iodine deficiency in urban slums of Bhubaneswar
The Indian Journal of Pediatrics, 2007The present study aimed at assessing the population prevalence of goiter and iodine deficiency in school children of 6-12 yr living in urban slums of Bhubaneswer, the capital city of Orissa.A cross-sectional study was performed using the 30-cluster sampling methodology and surveillance methods for iodine deficiency as recommended by WHO/ICCIDD/UNICEF ...
P G S, Sethy +4 more
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Reviews in Anthropology, 1978
William Foote Whyte. Street Corner Society: The Social Structure of an Italian Slum. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1943.xii + 284 pp. $5.00.
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William Foote Whyte. Street Corner Society: The Social Structure of an Italian Slum. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1943.xii + 284 pp. $5.00.
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2010
Slums have generated renewed interest among scholars in the wake of rapid urbanization in the South and the growing incidence of urban poverty worldwide. This gave rise to the expression “expanding urban slums,” which refers to a phenomenon occurring in the Global South associated with “hyper-urbanization”— rapid urbanization beyond the capacity of the
Michael Humphrey, Shahadat Hossain
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Slums have generated renewed interest among scholars in the wake of rapid urbanization in the South and the growing incidence of urban poverty worldwide. This gave rise to the expression “expanding urban slums,” which refers to a phenomenon occurring in the Global South associated with “hyper-urbanization”— rapid urbanization beyond the capacity of the
Michael Humphrey, Shahadat Hossain
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Partial Hospitalization Within an Urban Slum
American Journal of Psychiatry, 1972Data on 343 patients admitted to the Partial Hospitalization Service of the Lincoln Community Mental Health Center, New York City, over a two-year period indicate that the presence of this service cut admissions to the state hospital by two-thirds. The pressures that exist in an urban slum area in which no inpatient psychiatric facility is available ...
P, Ruiz, G, Saiger
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Measles immunisation coverage in urban slums
The Indian Journal of Pediatrics, 1999A cross-sectional, community-based study was conducted in 32 slums of Udaipur city to assess the prevalence of missed opportunities for measles immunization, reason for their occurrence and potential impact of avoiding them on measles immunization coverage.
M K, Money, P, Mohan
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Iron deficiency anemia in an urban slum
The Indian Journal of Pediatrics, 2008Of this pilot study was to assess the iron status and dietary intake of 1-3 year-old apparently healthy toddlers of the lower socio-economic class, and the effect of eight weeks intervention with liquid oral iron in an urban slum in Pune, India.50 toddlers (M= 25, F= 25) with mean age of 2.4 years (SD 0.82) were evaluated. Anthropometry, Food Frequency
N M, Hanumante +4 more
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Legal heritage and urban slums
Journal of Regional Science, 2022AbstractThis paper studies the effect of legal origins (common law vs. civil law) on contemporary slum formation in developing countries. First, we provide a cross‐country correlation analysis. Second, we provide a regression discontinuity analysis using household data from Cameroon.
Per G. Fredriksson +3 more
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1979
Slum housing is an all-too-familiar part of the British housing scene. In 1976 the English House Condition Survey estimated that nearly 800,000 dwellings were unfit for habitation: this represents nearly 5 per cent of the housing stock. When dwellings lacking one or more basic amenity are added to these, the proportion of substandard housing rises to ...
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Slum housing is an all-too-familiar part of the British housing scene. In 1976 the English House Condition Survey estimated that nearly 800,000 dwellings were unfit for habitation: this represents nearly 5 per cent of the housing stock. When dwellings lacking one or more basic amenity are added to these, the proportion of substandard housing rises to ...
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Researching Urban Slum Health in Nima, a Slum in Accra
2013The UN-Habitat defines a slum as a human settlement with inadequate access to safe water, inadequate access to sanitation and other infrastructure, poor structural quality of housing, overcrowding; and insecure residential status (UN-Habitat 2005; Riley et al. 2007).
Emmanuel Aggrey-Korsah, Joseph Oppong
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