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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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  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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  Overview of migration, poverty and health dynamics in Nairobi City's slum settlements

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

  The Urbanization, Poverty, and Health Dynamics research program was designed to generate and provide the evidence base that would help governments, development partners, and other stakeholders understand how the urban slum context affects health outcomes in order to stimulate policy and action for uplifting the wellbeing of slum residents.
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  Patterns and determinants of breastfeeding and complementary feeding practices in urban informal settlements, Nairobi Kenya

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

  The World Health Organisation (WHO) recommends exclusive breastfeeding during the first six months of life for optimal growth, development and health. Breastfeeding should continue up to two years or more and nutritionally adequate, safe, and appropriately-fed complementary foods should be introduced at the age of six months to meet the evolving needs of the growing infant.
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  Perceived quality of and access to care among poor urban women in Kenya and their utilization of delivery care: harnessing the potential of private clinics?

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

  This paper uses data from a maternal health study carried out in 2006 in two slums of Nairobi, Kenya, to: describe perceptions of access to and quality of care among women living in informal settlements of Nairobi, Kenya; quantify the effects of women’s perceived quality of, and access to, care on the utilisation of delivery services; and draw policy implications regarding the delivery of
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  The state of emergency obstetric ca re services in Nairobi informal settlements and environs: Results from a maternity health facility survey

  African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya, 2009

  Maternal mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa remains a challenge with estimates exceeding 1,000 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births in some countries. Successful prevention of maternal deaths hinges on adequate and quality emergency obstetric care.
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  A community-based intervention for primary prevention of cardiovascular diseases in the slums of Nairobi: the SCALE UP study protocol for a prospective quasi-experimental community-based trial

  African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya, 2013

  The burden of cardiovascular disease is rising in sub-Saharan Africa with hypertension being the main risk factor. However, context-specific evidence on effective interventions for primary prevention of cardiovascular diseases in resource-poor settings is limited.

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