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The burden of disease profile of residents of Nairobi's slums: results from a Demographic Surveillance System
African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya, 2008With increasing urbanisation in sub-Saharan Africa and poor economic performance, the growth of slums is unavoidable. About 71% of urban residents in Kenya live in slums. Slums are characteristically unplanned, under served by social services, and their residents are largely underemployed and poor.DocumentChild growth in urban deprived settings: does household poverty status matter? At which stage of child development?
African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya, 2012This paper uses longitudinal data from two informal settlements of Nairobi, Kenya to examine patterns of child growth and how these are affected by four different dimensions of poverty at the household level namely, expenditures poverty, assets poverty, food poverty, and subjective poverty.Documentmidterm analytical review of performance of the Uganda health sector strategic and investment plan 2010/11-2014/15, volume 2
African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya, 2013The Uganda Health Sector Strategic and Investment Plan (HSSIP) (2010/11-2014/15) is the key Ministry of Health document to guide the health sector. It is the sector’s comprehensive national plan and provides the guiding framework for the detailed planning and implementation of health sector activities.DocumentUrban health in Kenya - Key findings: the 2000 nairobi cross-sectional slum survey
African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya, 2012In the year 2000, APHRC conducted the first Nairobi Cross-Sectional Slum Survey that examined health profiles of urban slum residents comparing them with those of rural residents in Kenya.DocumentThe urban advantage: is Kenya making progress towards improving the lives of the urban poor? Perspectives: ten years after the year 2000 Nairobi cross-sectional slum survey
African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya, 2012The poor standard of living in many cities of the developing world has led researchers to question the so-called ‘urban advantage’, which assumes that urban dwellers fare better than their rural counterparts in terms of economic and health conditions.DocumentAccess to health care in relation to socioeconomic status in the Amazonian area of Peru
2009Good health is recognised by many as being central to individual and national development. However, there is often a disconnect between the access and utilisation of health services by the poor.DocumentTackling a global crisis: International Year of Sanitation 2008
UN-Water, 2008The UN General assembly declared 2008 as the International Year of Sanitation (IYS). The IYS provides the global community with an opportunity to raise awareness and accelerate actions for the achievement of the sanitation Millennium Development Goals through a variety of actions and interventions. This document presents an overview of the key issues and messages of the IYS.DocumentHousing, health and happiness
Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2007What is the causal impact of housing improvement programmes on health and welfare? This paper investigates the impact of a large-scale effort by the Mexican government to replace dirt floors with cement floors on child health and adult happiness. The paper identifies several positive results, including:DocumentMicrofinance for water supply services
Water and Environmental Health at London and Loughborough, 2006Microfinance provides the poor with an opportunity to access or finance water supply and sanitation activities.DocumentState of the world's cities 2006/7
United Nations Human Settlements Programme, 2006It is generally assumed that people living in the urban areas of developing countries are healthier, more literate and better off than their rural counterparts.Pages