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  Legal status and deprivation in India’s urban slums: an analysis of two decades of National Sample Survey Data

  2017

  In India, 52–98 million people live in urban slums, and 59% of slums are “non-notified” or lack legal recognition by the government.
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  Identifying and tackling the social determinants of child malnutrition in urban informal settlements and slums: a cross national review of the evidence for action

  Institute of Education, University of London, 2011

  Urbanisation can bring many benefits the rate of change but in many developing countries the rate of change has been so fast and so dramatic that many cities have been unable to cope.
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  Helpdesk report: Urban poverty in Nepal

  Governance and Social Development Resource Centre, 2015

  This Helpdesk Report responds to the following query: What are the issues and trends in relation to urban poverty in Nepal? Include data on key trends as well as a qualitative overview of the issues pertaining to informal settlements, housing and access to services that make poor people more or less vulnerable to hazards.
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  Health and nutrition drivers in urban areas

  Health and Education Advice and Resource Team, 2015

  This Helpdesk Report responds to the following query: What are the main drivers of health and nutritional status for poor people in urban areas (the ‘urban poor’) in low and lower middle income countries?
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  Urbanisation, the peri-urban growth and Zoonotic disease

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015

  Ebola has had significant, negative effects in the rapidly expanding, unregulated areas of peri-urban and urban West Africa. The residents of these areas maintain vital connections with rural populations while intermingling with and living in close proximity to urban and elite populations. These interconnections fuel the spread of Ebola.
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  Does the urban disadvantage still hold? Have the lives of Nairobi’s urban poor improved?

  African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya, 2014

  The Nairobi Cross-sectional Slums Survey of 2000 brought to light for the very first time, the plight of slum residents highlighting: their limited access to education, health care, reproductive health and family planning services; the debilitating environment including inadequate access to water and sanitation, poor housing conditions and poor livelihood opportunities.
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  Menstrual pattern, sexual behaviors, and contraceptive use among postpartum women in Nairobi urban slums

  African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya, 2011

  Postpartum months provide a challenging period for poor women. This study examined patterns of menstrual resumption, sexual behaviors and contraceptive use among urban poor postpartum women. Women were eligible for this study if they had a birth after the period September 2006 and were residents of two Nairobi slums of Korogocho and Viwandani.
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  Monitoring of health and demographic outcomes in poor urban settlements: evidence from the Nairobi Urban Health and Demographic Surveillance System

  African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya, 2011

  The Nairobi Urban Health and Demographic Surveillance System (NUHDSS) was set up in Korogocho and Viwandani slum settlements to provide a platform for investigating linkages between urban poverty, health, and demographic and other socioeconomic outcomes, and to facilitate the evaluation of interventions to improve the wellbeing of the urban poor.
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  The health and well-being of older people in Nairobi’s slums

  African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya, 2010

  Globally, it is estimated that people aged 60 and over constitute more than 11% of the population, with the corresponding proportion in developing countries being 8%. Rapid urbanisation in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), fuelled in part by rural urban migration and a devastating HIV/AIDS epidemic, has altered the status of older people in many SSA societies.
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  Women, poverty and adverse maternal outcomes in Nairobi, Kenya - Women-poverty-and-adverse-maternal-outcomes

  African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya, 2010

  The link between poverty and adverse maternal outcomes has been studied largely by means of quantitative data. We explore poor urban Kenyan women’s views and lived experiences of the relationship between economic disadvantage and unpleasant maternal outcomes.

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