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River basin flood adaptation for coastal urban slums. Mithi river basin, Dharavi slum
Ri-vista: Ricerche per la Progettazione del Paesaggio, 2023 Urban slums in developing countries host a substantial proportion of the urban population. Slums are located on land usually unsuitable for formal development, along the river basins or coastal mangroves that makes them at a greater risk of flooding ...
Anubhav Goyal +2 more
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Achieving Millennium Development Goals and India Vision 2020: Evidences from slums of Varanasi City
Space and Culture, India, 2015 The objective of this paper is to examine the achievements of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and India Vision 2020 in the context of the slums of Varanasi city.
Darshan Kumar Jha, V K Tripathi
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Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 2015 There is little scientific evidence that urban upgrading helps improve health or reduce inequities. This article presents the design for the BH-Viva Project, a “quasi-experimental”, multiphase, mixed-methods study with quantitative and qualitative ...
Amélia Augusta de Lima Friche +4 more
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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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Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health, 2023 Background: In urban slums, pregnant women are a high-risk group with limited access to health facilities due to reported barriers to utilization of maternal health services linked with sociodemographic variations in a few studies.
Rahul Shrivastava +5 more
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Health Concerns in Urban Slums [PDF]
JAMA, 2019 Bangladesh, with a population of 167 million, has recently emerged from being classified as a low-income country to a low-middle-income country and has made some progress in poverty reduction. However, in Bangladesh, mortality among children younger than 5 years is 33 per 1000 live births, life expectancy at birth is 72 years, and the most common ...
Ross, AGP, Zaman, K, Clemens, JD
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Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2020 Background: Anemia is common among the elderly and it is the reason behind their poor survival. Anemia among the elderly is consistently disregarded, which can even incite cardiovascular complexities.
Charutha Retnakumar +4 more
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Urbanization and Condition of Urban Slums in India [PDF]
Indonesian Journal of Geography, 2016 The present paper attempted to study the urbanization in India and condition of urban slums in terms of water, sanitation, electricity, garbage collection and health care, and education which are supposed to be basic minimum needs for the slum dwellers.
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Health Research Policy and Systems, 2021 Background Great disparities in immunization coverage exist in Pakistan between urban and rural areas. However, coverage estimates for large peri-urban slums in Sindh are largely unknown and implementation challenges remain unexplored.
Amna Tanweer Yazdani +4 more
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Informal Urbanism and the Taste for Slums [PDF]
Tourism Geographies, 2012 Abstract This paper explores the aesthetics and politics of slum tourism – what are the attractions and what are the dangers of aestheticizing poverty? We first present eleven images of slums and informal urbanism in south and Southeast Asia and suggest a complex mix of attractions for Western tourists.
Dovey, Kim, King, Ross
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