Abstract. Favelas are the most common type of informal settlements found in Brazil. The Housing Secretariat, City Hall, Sao Paulo, has conducted surveys using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for favelas to facilitate slum upgrading projects and taken initiative create a digital twin areas. This study illustrates feasibility developing methodological workflow by automatic 3D building reconstruct...

Even though the water and sanitation situations in urban areas are better than those rural areas, situation slums is worse that areas. Knowledge of actual deprived very important for introducing effective policies to steer a resilient system. This study tried determine disparity between two based on principles availability, accessibility, acceptability, quality safety affordability sanitation. ...

This paper examines whether an experimental intervention for girls aged 14–19 that provided reproductive health information, vocational counseling and training, and assistance with opening savings accounts in slum areas of Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh, India had an effect on their attitudes and behaviors. A quasi-experimental preand posttest design was used in which adolescent girls aged 14–19 re...

INTRODUCTION Rapid urbanisation in Kenya has resulted in growth of slums in urban centres, characterised by poverty, inadequate social services and poor health outcomes. The government's initiatives to improve access to quality healthcare for mothers and children are largely limited to public health facilities, which are few and/or inaccessible in underserved areas such as the slums. The 'Partn...

The escalating violence is usually accounted for by social inequalities in urban areas. However, the role of slums and their influence on violence in the city still needs studies comprising its multiple determinations. Most of the spatial analysis methodologies aim to evaluate the spatial distribution of homicide occurrence, identifying a posteriori its determinants. In this study, on the contr...

OBJECTIVE To identify the advantages and disadvantages of using segments compared to a complete address list, for the selection of households in a multistage cluster sampling in slums. METHODOLOGICAL PROCEDURES A qualitative study was performed in four slums selected by the São Paulo Municipal Health Survey of 2008, and the two selection techniques were applied. Focal groups were performed wi...

Health status of neonates in urban slums has not been studied in smaller towns. A questionnaire was administered to 154 families of 10 urban slums of Anand (population - 197351) and 160 families from 6 villages of Anand district. The socioeconomic and education status of the slum dwellers versus rural participants were significantly lower (P<0.001). Antenatal care (79.9 vs 94.4%, P<0.001), hosp...

One of the consequences of rapid urbanization in developing countries is the proliferation of slums. Lack of quantified, updated and spatially disaggregated information on slums contributes to incomplete intervention and monitoring. The identification, delineation and characterization of slums spatially in a consistent manner will make it possible to target slum intervention programs as well as...

Perspectives Attaining universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all by 2030 (sustainable development goal 6) 1 will be a major challenge, particularly in urban slum communities. In 2012, over 860 million people – about a third of the urban population of developing countries – were living in slums. 2 The primary barriers to accessing water in slums are not solely ...