SETTING An urban slum in Kamrangirchar, Bangladesh. OBJECTIVES Among children aged 6-59 months seeking medical care from the two Médecins Sans Frontières-supported primary health centres, to determine 1) the prevalence of severe acute malnutrition (SAM) and severe chronic malnutrition (SCM), and 2) the extent of overlap between SAM and SCM. DESIGN In a retrospective record review, data were...

The Etiology, Risk Factors and Interactions of Enteric Infections and Malnutrition and the Consequences for Child Health and Development (MAL-ED) study site in Bangladesh is located in the capital city of Dhaka in an urban slum that has one of the highest population densities in the world. The site is in the Bauniabadh area of Mirpur, Dhaka. A typical squatter settlement, the average family siz...

OBJECTIVES Community based breast cancer screening has decreased breast cancer mortality in women. This study examined the predictors of nonattendence for invitational breast cancer screening in relation to socioeconomic status in the city of Manisa, in western Turkey. STUDY DESIGN For the evaluation of the reasons for refusing to participate in the study, two districts were selected. 446 wom...

OBJECTIVE To examine the association between presence of an urban health center (UHC) in proximity to a slum and immunization status of slum children in a city in India. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Slums of Agra, India. PARTICIPANTS Data were obtained from a baseline survey conducted by the US Agency for International Development Environmental Health Project in 2005 in slums in ...

The Population Council's FRONTIERS in Reproductive Health Program and Policy Research Division, in collaboration with CARE India, are conducting an operations research study of an intervention designed to improve the lives and prospects of young women in several urban slum areas of Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh. The project aims to take a pre-existing reproductive health program for adolescents and ...

Urban renewal initiatives play an important role in achieving the targets of making human settlements and cities safe, inclusive, resilient sustainable. Renewal India is a comprehensive presentation strategic, technical theoretical aspects urban areas. ‘Urban Renewal’ refers redevelopment areas to ensure quality life, growth infrastructure, promotion tourism. The paper describes tools or approa...

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Abstract: Ensuring access to water and sanitation for all is Goal No. 6 of the 17 UN Sustainability Development Goals to transform our world. As one step towards this goal, we present an approach that leverages remote sensing data to plan optimal water supply networks for informal urban settlements. The concept focuses on slums within large urban areas, which are often characterized by a lack o...

The objective of the investigation was to analyse energy protein adequacy of the diets of Indian children residing in an urban slum. The subjects numbering 271 between the ages of 4-14 years resided in a slum in Mysore city in South India. Nutritional status of children and mothers were determined by standard procedures. Background information was obtained using questionnaire method. Dietary in...

BACKGROUND Slum-resettlement communities are increasingly adopting urban lifestyles. The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence and identify correlates of hypertension among residents aged 20-59 years of a slum-resettlement colony. MATERIALS AND METHODS A community-based cross-sectional study was done from 2010 to 2012 in NandNagri, a slum-resettlement area in east Delhi. 310 particip...