Close to 900 million people across the Global South live in densely packed urban slums, which often sit in floodplains. A new study finds that one in three slum dwellers is at risk of "disastrous" ...

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 : ...

Despite urbanization’s link to rising incomes, about one-third of those residing in urban areas live in "slum households." Anthropologist James Holston , in his " Insurgent Citizenship in an Era of ...

A study conducted in an urban slum setting in Salvador, Brazil has found that open sewers, accumulations of refuse, and inadequate floodwater drainage are acting as sources for transmission of the ...

The New Slum Dwellers Brian Cook April 12, 2006. Mike Davis Share. Tweet. Copy Link. Email Print. Published in May 2006. It’s tempting to call Mike Davis, a history professor at University ...

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 ...

A study conducted in an urban slum setting in Salvador, Brazil has found that open sewers, accumulations of refuse, and inadequate floodwater drainage are acting as sources for transmission of the ...