BACKGROUND Bangladesh has about 5.7 million people living in urban slums that are characterized by adverse living conditions, poor access to healthcare services and health outcomes. In an attempt to ensure safe maternal, neonatal and child health services in the slums BRAC started a programme, MANOSHI, in 2007. This paper reports the causes of maternal and neonatal deaths in slums and discusses...

0198-9715/$ see front matter 2011 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2011.11.001 ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +31 (0) 53 4874228, fax: +31 (0) 53 4874575. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (D. Kohli) [email protected] (N. Kerle), [email protected] (A. Stein). URL: http://www.itc.nl (D. Kohli). Information about rapidly changing slum areas may support the development of appropriate interventio...

background: the united nations has predicted that the population of slum dwellers will have grown from one billion people worldwide to 2 billion by 2030. this trend is also predictable in iran. in the iranian metropolis of shiraz, more than 10% of the residents live in slum areas. there are several problems regarding the delivery of social services in these areas. the aim of this study was to e...

Spatial analysis techniques were used to estimate the interurban differential HIV prevalence among pregnant women in the city of Porto Alegre, Southern Brazil. The estimates were produced through the spatial smoothing of residence pinpoints with live newborns and HIV infected pregnant women for the year of 2003. The overlay of high prevalence areas in city slums was identified. This finding con...

universally. To begin with, this Junior School consists of some 350 boys from 7 plus to 11 plus and draws them from two rather distinct areas, one a respectable district with neatish villas, the other an old district that tends to crowded slums. Within these two different areas exist two Infants' Schools which feed my school and in addition I receive many casual admissions, invariably from poor...

Introduction About 60% of Nairobi residents live in slums with higher poverty, population density prevalence diseases and lower health access than the city average. Some residents own livestock or in are in contact with its products. Most slums dwellers work outside slums. Thus, health surveillance in slum area is vital because of potential disease outbreaks and spread. Yet, little is known on ...

The nexus of urban poverty and sustainable development is complex. The urban poor reside in often deplorable conditions, which in some instances are worse than those in the rural areas that so many of them left behind (Brockerhoff and Brennan 1997). Women’s status, youth issues, and reproductive health concerns all take on a different complexion in the context of urban slums and informal settle...

Background: The United Nations has predicted that the population of slum dwellers will have grown from one billion people worldwide to 2 billion by 2030. This trend is also predictable in Iran. In the Iranian metropolis of Shiraz, more than 10% of the residents live in slum areas. There are several problems regarding the delivery of social services in these areas. The aim of this study was to e...

Purpose: Evaluating the slum handling program, typology, and factors that are challenges (gaps) for socio-economic empowerment in participatory of slums. Theoretical framework: Focus on several theories concepts about settlements, criteria houses, typologies, empowerment. The subject matter is built from results research gaps, phenomena, empiricism so as to give rise positions novelty. Design/m...

BACKGROUND Salt iodization is the main strategy for reducing iodine deficiency disorders worldwide. Characteristics of families not using iodized salt need to be known to expand coverage. OBJECTIVE The objective was to determine whether families who do not use iodized salt have a higher prevalence of child malnutrition and mortality and to identify factors associated with not using iodized sa...