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...
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...
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...
João Porto de Albuquerque, Godwin Yeboah, Vangelis Pitidis, Philipp Ulbrich
This paper presents results from the application of a methodological framework developed as part of an ongoing research project focused on understanding inequalities in the healthcare access of slum residents of cities in four countries: Bangladesh, Kenya, Pakistan and Nigeria. We employ a systemati...
João Porto de Albuquerque, Godwin Yeboah, Vangelis Pitidis, Ulbrich, Philipp
Background and purpose. Following the paradigmatic examples of the use of OSM for crisis mapping, there have been sustained efforts to use OSM for mapping preventively vulnerable communities in the global South. This includes, for instance, participatory mapping in the slums of sub-Saharan Africa (H...