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...

For a fast growing economy like India where most of its cities experiencing consistently increase in urban population, the future welfare of city residents is heavily relied on providing better living conditions and health prospects to the urban dwellers particularly to those who are living in miserable and unhygienic environment. The paper derived slum condition index (Slum CI) of notified and...

a Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, 451 Smyth Road, Ottawa, ON, K1H 8M5, Canada. Correspondence to Brodie Ramin (e-mail: [email protected]). Sub-Saharan Africa is the least urbanized region in the world. Only 39.1% of the region’s population lives in cities.1 However, the region’s urban population is projected to more than double to 760 million by 2030.1 The rate of urbanizat...

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U rban populations have skyrocketed globally and today represent more than half of the world’s population. In some parts of the developing world, this growth has more-than-proportionately involved rural migration to informal settlements in and around cities, known more commonly as “slums”— densely populated urban areas characterized by poor-quality housing, a lack of adequate living space and p...

A large proportion of preschool children in India, as in other developing countries, live in the urban slums. Among them, early identification of developmental delay will be beneficial. In the developed countries, rapid prescreening Denver Questionnaire (R-PDQ) is currently being used for community screening of developmental delay. This is followed by administering the Denver Development Screen...

In the present study, Quasi-experimental design was used to evaluate the effectiveness of structure teaching programme on domiciliary management and prevention of upper respiratory tract infections among the mothers of under five children at urban slums. The study was conducted in selected urban slums at Bangalore. The sample consisted of 60 mothers, experimental Group30 and Control Group-30. P...

This paper provides an improved methodology for analyzing the dynamics of slums in Developing Countries (DC). In particular, it demonstrates how Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Cellular Automata (CA) can be integrated to model, simulate, predict and dynamically visualize the growth of slums, and thus will improve future planning practices in DC. The paper first examines factors that co...

In 2010, an estimated 860 million people were living in slums worldwide, with around 60 million added to the slum population between 2000 and 2010. In 2011, 200 million people in urban Indian households were considered to live in slums. In order to address and create slum development programmes and poverty alleviation methods, it is necessary to understand the needs of these communities. Theref...

PURPOSE To determine the prevalence of active convulsive epilepsy and treatment gap in two Urban slums in Enugu South East Nigeria. METHODS A 3 phase cross-sectional descriptive study was done to survey individuals ≥ 15 years in 2 slums in Enugu, South East Nigeria. RESULTS The prevalence of epilepsy was 6.0 (95% CI: 5.9-6.0) per 1000 (men 4.4/1000, 95% CI: 2.3-6.4, women 7.8/1000, 95% CI: ...