Measuring multiple housing deprivations in urban India using Slum Severity Index

Multiple deprivations and maternal care in India.

CONTEXT Research on inequalities in the utilization of maternal health care services is often confined to only the economic domain. Individuals and families living in acute poverty may simultaneously experience multiple dimensions of deprivation, which together may obstruct their access to basic health services. It is important to examine the linkages between multiple deprivations and maternal ...

Baltimore's slum housing clinic.

Financing Affordable Housing for the Low-Income in Urban India

Introduction With vast investment and employment opportunities, India's urban areas have already become the engine of the country's development, drawing in everyone from the global real estate firm to the displaced marginal farmer. The World Bank estimates that urban areas currently house 32 percent of India's population of 1.2 billion, the highest proportion in Indian history.

Building for the future: influence of housing on intelligence quotients of children in an urban slum.

INTRODUCTION Interventions on behalf of the marginalized in society can assume many formats. In an urban slum the Government of Delhi built one-room houses for some of the residents in what is termed a 'plot area'. Not all residents could be accommodated in the project and the remainder continued to live next door in shanty houses of the slum. Nineteen years later, young children who had migrat...

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