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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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Differences in the Prevalence of Non-Communicable Disease between Slum Dwellers and the General Population in a Large Urban Area in Brazil. [PDF]
, 2017 Residents of urban slums are at greater risk for disease than their non-slum dwelling urban counterparts. We sought to contrast the prevalences of selected non-communicable diseases (NCDs) between Brazilian adults living in a slum and the general ...
Calcagno, Juan I +9 more
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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