BACKGROUND A range of formal and informal close-to-community (CTC) health service providers operate in an increasingly urbanized Bangladesh. Informal CTC health service providers play a key role in Bangladesh's pluralistic health system, yet the reasons for their popularity and their interactions with formal providers and the community are poorly understood. This paper aims to understand the fa...

Latin America and the Caribbean is a dynamic and culturally, economically and ethnically diverse region, including countries at different stages of political and economic development. The region’s population has nearly trebled since the Second World War, reaching 459 million in 1993 (Grant, 1995). Latin America as a whole has shifted from a continent largely populated by villagers to one of peo...

Aim: To study the Practices of Pre-lacteal feeding among Newborns in Urban slums of Lucknow city. Setting and Design: A cross-sectional study in Urban slums of Lucknow city, UP. Methods and Material: A cross-sectional study in Urban slums of Lucknow city, UP included 524 women who had a live birth during last one year preceding data collection. A pre-desined and pretested questionnaire was used...

OR THE BETTER part of the century preceding World War II, Britons went slumming to see for themselves how the poor lived. They insisted that firsthand experience among the metropolitan poor was essential for all who claimed to speak authoritatively about social problems. To a remarkable degree, the men and women who governed church and state in late-nineteenthand twentieth-century Britain and d...

The slums are now a reality to be recognised. They were undoubtedly the prior nightmare of inhabitants in the world. Marrakech region experienced strong population growth. There is also a major investment in the tourism sector in the city and its outskirts. Unable to access any property, for lack of means, the newcomers live in these slums, and build shelters. What makes things more difficult? ...

KOTAKU is government’s strategic program which intended to increase basic infrastructure and service in slum areas. Kampung Rawa Barat one of the towns gets priority implementation TORA location for Agrarian Reform Activities There are 3.7 hectares area with various problems such as condition facilities infrastructure, indications besides that there also 32 houses whose buildings stand on banks...

BACKGROUND Decades after the establishment of clear guidelines for management, mostly due to irrational approach, diarrhea is still a major concern in the developing world, including India. The scenario is even worse in urban slums owing to poor health-seeking and socio-environmental vulnerability. Determining the distribution of rational diarrhea management by practitioners and identification ...

this paper amis to recognition and measurement of quality of life indicators in rural areas, case study miandeh rural district in fasa township. the role of rural areas in the procedure of economic, social and political development is not deniable in various regional scales. the outcomes of inadequate attention to the concept of quality of life in rural areas can cause several disorders such as...

Abstract This phenomenon of slums represents one the most serious problems that Iraqi cities suffer from, especially city Baghdad, which has become teeming with a lot slum buildings have distorted its areas and neighborhoods. Most are in form scattered construction chaotic gatherings do not follow any planning standards. paper aims to present analyze mechanisms urban upgrading two models Baghda...