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CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract The Internet of Things is emerging as a crucial technology in aiding humans and making their lives easier. Among the human population, a large percentage of people suffer from disabilities resulting in challenges in everyday life particularly people with visual disabilities.
Hania Tarik +8 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
P.S. Rakesh +6 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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Urban Slums Sustainable Regeneration Through Foresight Approach Case Study: Sanandaj Urban Slums [PDF]
نشریه جغرافیا و برنامهریزی, 2020 Introduction Almost half of the world's population lives in cities. According to the report (UN-HABITAT) Urban areas in the next 30 years, They will be the most important centers of world population growth and with this increase in population, Planners ...
Mohammad Reza Pourmohammadi +2 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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Sexuality in Adolescents: have we Explored Enough! A Cross-sectional Study to Explore Adolescent Health in a City Slum in Northern India [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2014 Context: Adolescent health is a relatively new focus area of India’s National health program. However, little evidence is available for the existing problems especially in adolescent slum population.
Timsi Jain, Yogesh Mohan
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Morbidity profile of under-5 slum dwellers of Amritsar city: A descriptive cross-sectional study
Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2021 Context: Children living in slums are deprived from basic necessities. Unhygienic environment and deficient nutrition hinder their growth and make them more prone to infectious diseases.
Jasmeet Singh +5 more
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Hypertension in a Brazilian Urban Slum Population [PDF]
Journal of Urban Health, 2015 Low- and middle-income countries account for the majority of hypertension disease burden. However, little is known about the distribution of this illness within subpopulations of these countries, particularly among those who live in urban informal settlements.
Alon, Unger +11 more
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Creating Space: Sack Gardening as a Livelihood Strategy in the Kibera Slums of Nairobi, Kenya
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2016 As many countries in sub-Saharan Africa undergo rapid urbanization, a growing number of people are joining the ranks of the urban poor. Urban agriculture is a livelihood strategy used by the poor to improve their well-being, but it has remained largely ...
Courtney M. Gallaher +3 more
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Spatial distribution of slums and its association with disaster vulnerability in Yogyakarta City [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2020 Slums commonly distributed in susceptible environment or in location that occupied by low economic household, especially in urban areas. Empirically, in Indonesia, the data about distribution and total area of slums is quite hard to be acquired, since ...
Marwasta Djaka, Rahayu Theresia D. K.
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