Jason Corburn, David Vlahov, Blessing Mberu, Lee W. Riley et al.
The informal settlements of the Global South are the least prepared for the pandemic of COVID-19 since basic needs such as water, toilets, sewers, drainage, waste collection, and secure and adequate housing are already in short supply or non-existent. Further, space constraints, violence, and overcr...
Syed Ahsanuddin Ahmed, Motunrayo Ajisola, Kehkashan Azeem, Pauline Bakibinga et al.
INTRODUCTION: With COVID-19, there is urgency for policymakers to understand and respond to the health needs of slum communities. Lockdowns for pandemic control have health, social and economic consequences. We consider access to healthcare before and during COVID-19 with those working and living in...
Blessing Mberu, Tilahun Haregu, Catherine Kyobutungi, Alex Ezeh
BACKGROUND: It is generally assumed that urban slum residents have worse health status when compared with other urban populations, but better health status than their rural counterparts. This belief/assumption is often because of their physical proximity and assumed better access to health care serv...
Noêmia Teixeira de Siqueira Filha, Jinshuo Li, Penelope A. Phillips‐Howard, Zahidul Quayyum et al.
BACKGROUND: The growing urban population imposes additional challenges for health systems in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). We explored the economic burden and inequities in healthcare utilisation across slum, non-slum and levels of wealth among urban residents in LMICs. METHODS: This sco...
Godwin Yeboah, João Porto de Albuquerque, Rafael Troilo, Grant Tregonning et al.
This paper examines OpenStreetMap data quality at different stages of a participatory mapping process in seven slums in Africa and Asia. Data were drawn from an OpenStreetMap-based participatory mapping process developed as part of a research project focusing on understanding inequalities in healthc...
Meggie Mwoka, Olivia Biermann, Catherine K. Ettman, Salma M. Abdalla et al.
Housing is a paradigmatic example of a social determinant of health, as it influences and is influenced by structural determinants, such as social, macroeconomic, and public policies, politics, education, income, and ethnicity/race, all intersecting to shaping the health and well-being of population...
Bachera Aktar, Wafa Alam, Samiha Ali, Abdul Awal et al.
Safeguarding is rapidly rising up the international development agenda, yet literature on safeguarding in related research is limited. This paper shares processes and practice relating to safeguarding within an international research consortium (the ARISE hub, known as ARISE). ARISE aims to enhance ...
Improving Health in Slums Collaborative, Pauline Bakibinga, Caroline Kabaria, Ziraba Kasiira et al.
BACKGROUND: Slums or informal settlements characterize most large cities in LMIC. Previous evidence suggests pharmacies may be the most frequently used source of primary care in LMICs but that pharmacy services are of variable quality. However, evidence on pharmacy use and availability is very limit...
Jason Corburn, David Vlahov, Blessing Mberu, Lee W. Riley et al.
The article “Slum Health: Arrresting COVID-19 and Improving Well-Being in Urban Informal Settlements”, written by Jason Corburn et al.
Akanksha A. Marphatia, Sheillah Simiyu, MJ O'Kane, Kelly Alexander et al.
Summary box Sanitation is critical to improving quality of life and gender equality.
Noemia Teixeira de Siqueira-Filha, Jinshuo Li, Eliud Kibuchi, Zahidul Quayyum et al.
INTRODUCTION: People living in slums face several challenges to access healthcare. Scarce and low-quality public health facilities are common problems in these communities. Costs and prevalence of catastrophic health expenditures (CHE) have also been reported as high in studies conducted in slums in...
Eliud Kibuchi, Proloy Barua, Ivy Chumo, Noêmia Teixeira de Siqueira Filha et al.
INTRODUCTION: Several studies have shown that residents of urban informal settlements/slums are usually excluded and marginalised from formal social systems and structures of power leading to disproportionally worse health outcomes compared to other urban dwellers. To promote health equity for slum ...
Jason Corburn, David Vlahov, Blessing Mberu, Lee W. Riley et al.
The informal settlements of the Global South are the least prepared for the pandemic of COVID-19 since basic needs such as water, toilets, sewers, drainage, waste collection, and secure and adequate housing are already in short supply or non-existent. Further, space constraints, violence, and overcr...