Malaysia has experienced rapid urbanization, leading to congestion and a shortage of adequate housing. For those who cannot afford housing due the high prices houses, such as marginalized low-income groups, squatting becomes an alternative for viable solutions. Many have moved into urban squatter zones in search alternate Drawing on case study, this study explores challenges dwellers face how i...

The gradual development of malfunction in the intervertebral disc and its subsequent degeneration, was demonstrated by Hansen (1959), who, in a study of the pathogenesis of disc degeneration in animals, outlined a process that appears to have close parallels in the human. He demonstrated in dissected specimens that degenerative change begins at the end of growth and is characterised by a slow c...

Encompassing data from a year-long field-based work in the neighborhood of Ksiladika, Thessaloniki Northern Greece, I divulge campaign vigilant evictions migrant squatters by local property owners. To contextualize this violence historically, point to distinct trajectory Greek regime, carved minimal involvement state welfare provision, role family as substitute and valorized norm hybridizing fa...

Numerous parallels can be drawn between the systematic destruction of Thailand's forests and the emergence, in the same time period, of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) as an irreversible societal crisis. Both the disintegration of the body's defense system implicit in AIDS and the erosion of Thailand's ecosystem provoked by deforestation policies are examples of assaults by capitalis...

Aim: To evaluate the association between anterior knee pain (AKP) and traditional Indian habits of cross-legged sitting and squatting which involve deep knee flexion. Materials and methods: A case control study was carried out in 225 patients and 225 age and sex matched controls at a tertiary care university hospital in South India over 3 years. Males and females between 18 and 55 years were ev...

One-third of India’s urban population resides in slums and squatters, their vulnerability being characterized by poverty and powerlessness. Newborn care is sub-optimal among India’s urban poor, yet scarcely documented. Neonates born in urban poor settings are at high risk of death owing to multitudinous factors. This paper discusses the situation of neonatal care and survival among the urban po...

Early childhood growth retardation persists in developing countries despite decades of nutritional interventions. Adequate food is necessary, but not sufficient, to ensure normal growth where there is ubiquitous exposure to infection. Pathways associated with infection, small intestinal mucosal damage and chronic immunostimulation remain largely undemonstrated in countries other than The Gambia...