Introduction The world is becoming increasingly urban. Of the projected increase of 1·1 billion in the world population between 2010 and 2025, virtually all will be urban dwellers. Urbanisation is mostly happening in lowincome regions, with Africa having the highest rate of all continents. The population growth rate in urban areas is almost double the rural rate but, more importantly, the slum ...

Informal urban settlements, known as slums, are the home for a Background: large proportion of the world population. Healthcare in these environments is extremely complex, driven by poverty, environmental challenges, and poor access to formal health infrastructures. This study investigated healthcare challenges faced and choices made by slum dwellers in Mumbai, India. Structured interviews with...

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...

The body of scientific literature on slum mapping employing remote sensing methods has increased since the availability of more very-high-resolution (VHR) sensors. This improves the ability to produce information for pro-poor policy development and to build methods capable of supporting systematic global slum monitoring required for international policy development such as the Sustainable Devel...

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...