Despite a massive investment in subsidized housing, informal settlement remains significant aspect of urban development Chilean cities. This paper first surveys the morphology contemporary settlements four cities to maps extent and location neighbourhoods that have developed informally or semi-formally. The broad pattern is more been practically eliminated from capital Santiago, yet mixed infor...

Food insecurity in the urban poor is a major public health challenge. The Health, Environment and Development study assessed trends in food insecurity and food consumption over a period of 7 years in an informal settlement in Johannesburg, South Africa (SA). Annual cross-sectional surveys were conducted in the informal settlement (Hospital Hill). The degree of household food insecurity decrease...

Ambient and indoor temperature affects thermal comfort and human health. In a changing climate with a predicted change in temperature extremes, understanding indoor temperatures, both hot and cold, of different housing types is important. This study aimed to assess the hourly, daily and monthly variation in indoor temperatures in different housing types, namely formal houses, informal houses, f...

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The paper discusses the use of empirical evidence to derive the concept for a spatially explicit agent-based model that simulates land-use change in an informal settlement in the city of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Dar es Salaam’s informal settlements are home to 70 – 80 % of the city’s residents and are characterized by high housing densities, unstructured road infrastructure and inadequate water...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Initial stroke severity is one of the strongest predictors of eventual stroke outcome. However, predictors of initial stroke severity have not been well-described within a population. We hypothesized that poorer patients would have a higher initial stroke severity on presentation to medical attention. METHODS We identified all cases of hospital-ascertained ischemic stro...

Research emphasizing effects of migration on sub-Saharan African families has focused on implications of absent fathers, particularly in areas with historic male migration. Yet, the number of women migrating throughout Africa is likely to have more profound effects on family stability and child well-being. When women move, they face difficult decisions of migrating with children, potentially ex...