objective: to ascertain the utilization of the emergency contraception and to evaluate the impact of intervention on acceptability and utilization of emergency contraceptive pills. materials and methods: this community based cross sectional study was carried out by the department of community medicine in the slums of chandigarh. the study sample was chosen by two stage systematic sampling. part...

OBJECTIVE To examine the association between presence of an urban health center (UHC) in proximity to a slum and immunization status of slum children in a city in India. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Slums of Agra, India. PARTICIPANTS Data were obtained from a baseline survey conducted by the US Agency for International Development Environmental Health Project in 2005 in slums in ...

BACKGROUND Bangladesh has about 5.7 million people living in urban slums that are characterized by adverse living conditions, poor access to healthcare services and health outcomes. In an attempt to ensure safe maternal, neonatal and child health services in the slums BRAC started a programme, MANOSHI, in 2007. This paper reports the causes of maternal and neonatal deaths in slums and discusses...

Purpose: Evaluating the slum handling program, typology, and factors that are challenges (gaps) for socio-economic empowerment in participatory of slums. Theoretical framework: Focus on several theories concepts about settlements, criteria houses, typologies, empowerment. The subject matter is built from results research gaps, phenomena, empiricism so as to give rise positions novelty. Design/m...

This paper tests for the endogeneity of one of the main elements separating different models of intrahousehold allocations, namely the household information set. Based on unusually rich data, I find that split migrant couples in the Nairobi slums invest considerable resources into information acquisition through visits, sibling and child monitoring, budget submissions, and marital search. I als...

Instead of criminalizing slums, the global discourse on slums and urban poor is changing towards integration, rehabilitation, internationalizing cities. As pleasant as it may look, important to critically reflect evaluate policies upgradation especially in south. Is change from criminalization rehabilitation integration true its spirit or just another policy gimmick? This article uses critical ...

One billion people worldwide are estimated to be living in slums, and documenting analyzing these regions is a challenging task. As compared regular slums; the small, scattered temporary nature of slums makes data collection labeling tedious time-consuming. To tackle this problem detection, we present semi-supervised deep learning segmentation-based approach; with strategy detect initial seed i...

This paper focuses on finding answers to the reasons why people keep living in slums and they cannot get out of their precarious conditions. looks into different for being stuck from a religious perspective. Reasons groups are not explored fully literature. The analysis draws qualitative research with sample 53 semi-structured interviews conducted 8 katchi abadis Islamabad, Pakistan. study show...