Tourism has been in the spotlight recently, especially urban slum areas. Many studies have reviewed However, transforming slums into creative tourism villages or kampungs is a new phenomenon that emerged Indonesia. Creative kampung, particular, form of changes area tourist destination. This study aims to explore extent kampung's sustainability and role stakeholders ensuring this village. employ...

1. Urban Development 1.1. Increase of Urban Population 1.2. Size of Cities 1.3. Growth of Slums 2. Health Implications of Urban Growth 2.1. urban Characteristics of Health 2.1.1. Urban Health Hazards 2.1.2. The Health Transition 2.2. Specific Health Situations in Slum Areas 3. Future Challenges 3.1. Sustainability of Urban Systems 3.2. Aging of Urban Populations Glossary Bibliography Biographic...

Increased urbanization and the increase in number of housing areas or settlements that are less organized, accompanied by increasing slums. Slum settlement is defined as a residential area unfit for habitation with irregular building conditions, has high level density, quality buildings facilities infrastructure do not meet requirements. The problem this research low coverage solid waste servic...

This study analyzes the socioeconomic characteristics, identifies livelihood assets, determines calorie intake level, and problems constraints faced by slum dwellers among randomly selected 60 households from Korail Noyapara slums in Dhaka city. The result reveals that low share of old people is nothing but a bad living health conditions slums. A very large (almost 90 percent) having less than ...

BACKGROUND The deprived physical environments present in slums are well-known to have adverse health effects on their residents. However, little is known about the health effects of the social environments in slums. Moreover, neighbourhood quantitative spatial analyses of the mental health status of slum residents are still rare. The aim of this paper is to study self-rated mental health data i...

OBJECTIVE Cause-specific death rates are rarely available to guide health interventions for adults in South Asia. We report mortality patterns among Karachi's urban poor. METHODS We conducted verbal autopsies for adult deaths under active surveillance during 1990-1993 in five urban slums of Karachi. Two physicians assigned underlying cause of death by consensus. Analysis included cause- and c...

Findings are presented from an assessment of the impact of potable water supply, mother's literacy, toilet type, socioeconomic status, family size, housing, hygienic practices, and malnutrition upon the frequency of diarrheal episodes among children of low socioeconomic status living in the urban slums of East Delhi, India. The mothers of 450 consecutive children with acute diarrhea attending ...

BACKGROUND Sanitation is one of the most intimate issues that affect women, especially in slums of developing countries. There are few studies that have paid attention to the gender variations in access, choice to use and cleaning of shared latrines in slums. METHODS This paper draws on qualitative data from a cross sectional study conducted between 2012 and 2013 in six slums of Kampala City,...

BACKGROUND Urban slums are characterised by unique challenging living conditions, which increase their inhabitants' vulnerability to specific health conditions. The identification and prioritization of the key health issues occurring in these settings is essential for the development of programmes that aim to enhance the health of local slum communities effectively. As such, the present study s...