Changes in socio-economic and health condition of rehabilitated slum dwellers in Kolkata, West Bengal

changes in socio-economic and health condition of rehabilitated slum dwellers in kolkata, west bengal

the cancerous spread of slum has been a rampant problem in urban areas worldwide. the acute shortage of housing facilities compels the poor to live in slums. proper rehabilitation is considered as a very essential remedial measure to provide better living environment to slum peoples. this study is an essential attempt to gauge the effectiveness of a rehabilitation program, which studies the cha...

Socio Economic Conditions of Urban Slum Dwellers in Kannur Municipality

Improving quality of life in the slum is one of the development goals for new millennium. The existence of slums is essentially a manifestation of poverty, along with the economic and industrial development-slums will continue to exist and grow further. The experience of Kerala shows that the condition of the people can be improved even at low levels of economic development through appropriate ...

Clinicohematological Profiles of Hospitalized Patients with Dengue in Kolkata in 2012 Epidemic, West Bengal

Dengue usually presents itself with subclinical or mild infection to full blown dengue fever (DF) to dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) and dengue shock syndrome (DSS). In Kolkata, dengue started in 1824 followed by five epidemics that occurred in 1836, 1906, 1911, 1923 and 2005. The aim of this investigation is to study the clinicohematological correlation of all patients with respect to their gen...

Socio-economic Status of Slum Dwellers: An Empirical Study on the Capital City of Bangladesh

Slums living people are very poor and their socio-economic condition does not allow them to live a healthy life. They do not have access to sanitation and they cannot get safe water supply. They have to live in adverse conditions due to poor social, economic and health facilities. The main purpose of this study was to find out socio-economic condition of slum dwellers of Dhaka city, the capital...

Slums in Kolkata: a socio-economic analysis

Poverty is a major curse to the society. Slums are the face of urban poverty and illiteracy. This paper presents and discusses primary data from a survey of 96 households taken from five different slums of Kolkata. It attempts to examine the socio-economic aspects of slums surveyed in this paper in terms of income, education, savings, sanitation, financial inclusion etc. In this paper, the coll...

MTHFR gene polymorphisms analyzed in population from Kolkata, West Bengal