BACKGROUND A continuous influx of poor people to urban slums poses a challenge to Bangladesh's health system as it has failed to tackle maternal morbidity and mortality. BRAC is the largest non-governmental organisation in Bangladesh. BRAC has been working to reduce maternal, neonatal and under-five children morbidity and mortality of slum dwellers in cities. BRAC has been doing this work for a...

1. Urban Development 1.1. Increase of Urban Population 1.2. Size of Cities 1.3. Growth of Slums 2. Health Implications of Urban Growth 2.1. urban Characteristics of Health 2.1.1. Urban Health Hazards 2.1.2. The Health Transition 2.2. Specific Health Situations in Slum Areas 3. Future Challenges 3.1. Sustainability of Urban Systems 3.2. Aging of Urban Populations Glossary Bibliography Biographic...

Many communities in Mozambique fi nd themselves in the rural-urban interface, either Many communities in Mozambique fi nd themselves in the rural-urban interface, either by being small towns or rural areas in the vicinity of cities. There is growing evidence by being small towns or rural areas in the vicinity of cities. There is growing evidence that the households and individuals who manage to...

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...

Increased urbanization and the increase in number of housing areas or settlements that are less organized, accompanied by increasing slums. Slum settlement is defined as a residential area unfit for habitation with irregular building conditions, has high level density, quality buildings facilities infrastructure do not meet requirements. The problem this research low coverage solid waste servic...

This socio-economic review provides an overview of the sanitation crisis in slum areas, and re-emphasizes the importance of sanitation. It highlights a lack of recognition of actual drivers for sanitation improvements, and the complexities in the provision of sanitation services in the context of urban slums with a mix of tenants and landlords. It elaborates how the drivers of demand for sanita...

This paper examines OpenStreetMap data quality at different stages of a participatory mapping process in seven slums Africa and Asia. Data were drawn from an OpenStreetMap-based developed as part research project focusing on understanding inequalities healthcare access slum residents the Global South. Descriptive statistics qualitative analysis employed to examine following question: What is sp...

Abstract The literature on the concentration of urban poverty has considered two kinds locations as pockets poverty: slums (vs. non-slums) and towns cities). Moving beyond these binaries in discussing spatial poverty, we have made an intersection residential post-reform India using four rounds data from National Sample Survey. proportion relatively poor households was lower city slum areas than...

Both developed and less developed countries are becoming increasingly urbanized. The earlier industrialized countries have developed more infrastructure to support the building of healthy housing, in neighborhoods that are strongly linked to municipal and global health initiatives, but to some degree housing and neighborhood issues vary only in degree between the developing and developed worlds...