Slum Health : From the Cell to the Street /

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"Urban slum dwellers--especially in emerging-economy cities--are often poor, live in squalor, and suffer unnecessarily from disease, disability, premature death, and poor life expectancy. Yet living in a city can and should be healthy. Slum Health highlights why and how slums can be unhealthy,...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Riley, Lee W. (Editor), Corburn, Jason (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Urban health.
Urban ecology (Sociology)
Slums > Health aspects.
Cities and towns > Health aspects.
MEDICAL > General.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
MEDICAL > Preventive Medicine.
MEDICAL > Forensic Medicine.
urban environments.
Écologie urbaine.
Sante urbaine > Kenya > Nairobi.
Sante urbaine > Inde.
Sante urbaine > Bresil.
Urban health > Kenya > Nairobi.
Urban health > India.
Urban health > Brazil.
Kenya > Nairobi.
India.
Brazil.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Slum health: framing research, practice & policy
  • From the cell to the street: slum health in Brazil
  • Urban upgrading and health in Nairobi, Kenya
  • Indian cities and slum health planning
  • Gaps and future considerations.

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