Antibiotics are a routine part of everyday life in many contexts, contributing to the development antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Our ethnographic research documents ways that antibiotics have become key for precariously employed urban day-wage workers living large informal settlement Kampala, Uganda. We found people, their daily work and ongoing health was entangled with antibiotic use; is, pe...

THE 1959 Mental Health Act emphasises the need to integrate psychiatric patients with the community at large rather than to isolate them from it, as hitherto. This identification with the normal community has been the Ministry of Labour's approach to the employment of disabled people since the time of the Disabled Persons (Employment) <4ct of 1944. For the past 17 years all disabled people, whe...

This study investigated the living conditions of eZakheleni informal settlement, Durban metropolis Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa. The utilized data were collected with use a well-structured questionnaire through multistage sampling 255 households. descriptive results indicated low levels educational attainment, large number female headed households, high unemployment rates, inadequate sources inc...

The evidence of the impact of informal care provision on the health of carers presents a complex and contested picture, depending on the characteristics of the care studied, including its duration, which has been relatively short in previous research (up to 4 years). Drawing on data from the Office for National Statistics Longitudinal Study, a 1% sample of linked Census records for respondents ...