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Automated detection of slum area change in Hyderabad, India using multitemporal satellite imagery [PDF]
, 2013 This paper presents an approach to automated identification of slum area change patterns in Hyderabad, India, using multi-year and multi-sensor very high resolution satellite imagery.
Luedeke, Matthias, Kit, Oleksandr
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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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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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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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Socio-economic factors explain differences in public health-related variables among women in Bangladesh: A cross-sectional study [PDF]
, 2008 Khan MH, Krämer A. Socio-economic factors explain differences in public health-related variables among women in Bangladesh: A cross-sectional study. BMC Public Health. 2008;8(1): 254.Background: Worldwide one billion people are living in slum communities
Khan, Mobarak Hossain +4 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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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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