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On the other hand, the number of people living in slums worldwide increased by 55 million in the same period; the biennial report says that the 776. 7 million slum dwellers in 2000 grew to 827. 6 ...
Although many expect urbanization to mean an improved quality of life, this rising tide does not lift all boats, and many poor people are rapidly being absorbed into urban slums. Urbanization, in ...
Slum health is not urban health: why we must distinguish between the two Published: December 18, 2016 11:04am EST. Alex Ezeh, Blessing Mberu, Tilahun Haregu, African Population and Health ...
Urban slums are uniquely vulnerable to COVID-19. Here's how to help. Report provides eight urgent recommendations for reducing the impact of COVID-19 on people living in poverty ...
The Jharkhand government has renamed Atal Mohalla Clinics as Mother Teresa Advanced Health Clinics. The rebranding was decided at a state cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Hemant Soren. The ...
Slum Health: Arresting COVID-19 and Improving Well-Being in Urban Informal Settlements. Journal of Urban Health , 2020; DOI: 10.1007/s11524-020-00438-6 Cite This Page : ...
Late in 2003 the United Nations reported that one billion people—approximately one third of the world’s urban dwellers and a sixth of all humanity, live in slums. And it predicted that within ...
The number of people living in the world's urban slums is rising -- but the number of city dwellers who don't live in slums is rising even faster. Check out this graphic from the Economist. It ...
The United Nations estimates that in 2001, 924 million people, or 31.6 percent of the world’s urban population, lived in slums; the number today surely exceeds 1 billion. As Planet of Slums author ...
The Federal Government, through the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development, has announced implementing over 150 slum upgrading and urban renewal projects across Nigeria’s six geopolitical zones ...
Even so, the majority of urban dwellers in sub-Saharan Africa live under slum conditions, without durable housing or legal rights to their land. At least one-quarter of African city dwellers do ...
Government-enforced social isolation may help relatively affluent populations limit the spread of COVID-19, but these measures can be devasting for the nearly 1 billion people around the globe ...