نتایج جستجو برای: informal settlement

تعداد نتایج: 45633  

Journal: :The Canadian journal of nursing research = Revue canadienne de recherche en sciences infirmieres 2009
Sepali Guruge Janice Humphreys

Social support is critical for women dealing with intimate partner violence (IPV).When support from their informal sources, such as family, friends, and neighbours, is limited, women tend to access services provided by health professionals, social workers, and settlement workers. In this qualitative descriptive study, community leaders who were also first-generation immigrants describe the comp...

2011
Anders Ragnarsson Anna Mia Ekström Jane Carter Festus Ilako Abigail Lukhwaro Gaetano Marrone Anna Thorson

BACKGROUND Our intention was to analyze demographic and contextual factors associated with sexual risk taking among HIV-infected patients on antiretroviral treatment (ART) in Africa's largest informal urban settlement, Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya. METHODS We used a cross-sectional survey in a resource-poor, urban informal settlement in Nairobi; 515 consecutive adult patients on ART attending the...

Journal: :Tropical medicine & international health : TM & IH 2014
Agnes Sobry Walter Kizito Rafael Van den Bergh Katie Tayler-Smith Petros Isaakidis Erastus Cheti Rose J Kosgei Alexandra Vandenbulcke Zacharia Ndegwa Tony Reid

OBJECTIVE In three primary health care clinics run by Médecins Sans Frontières in the informal settlement of Kibera, Nairobi, Kenya, we describe the caseload, management and treatment outcomes of patients with hypertension (HT) and/or diabetes mellitus (DM) receiving care from January 2010 to June 2012. METHOD Descriptive study using prospectively collected routine programme data. RESULTS O...

2014
Dana R. Thomson Shrutika Shitole Tejal Shitole Kiran Sawant Ramnath Subbaraman David E. Bloom Anita Patil-Deshmukh

BACKGROUND We devised and implemented an innovative Location-Based Household Coding System (LBHCS) appropriate to a densely populated informal settlement in Mumbai, India. METHODS AND FINDINGS LBHCS codes were designed to double as unique household identifiers and as walking directions; when an entire community is enumerated, LBHCS codes can be used to identify the number of households locate...

Journal: :Evaluation & the health professions 2015
Margaret S Westaway Esmè R Jordaan Jennifer Tsai

Interviewers administered the Rosenberg Self-Esteem scale (RSES) to five groups of Black (formal township and informal settlement), White, Indian, and mixed race adult residents of Greater Pretoria. The results demonstrated that the RSES was psychometrically sound for the five groups. The minimal effects of sociodemographic characteristics on global self-esteem showed that the RSES and its two ...

Journal: :Environment and Urbanization 2023

Not all the challenges of informal settlement upgrading programmes can be anticipated from start. It calls for cumulative learning within programme’s timeline. This paper investigates role organizational in influencing programme outcomes. The analysis Kenya Informal Settlement Improvement Programme (KISIP) shows that a lack routines lead to reduced success, and improve Well-conceptualized proce...

Journal: :Acta academica 2021

Informal settlements have been identified as locations both where the spread of COVID-19 has generally slower than within Global North and measures to restrain pandemic further intensified local peoples’ marginality income decreases without welfare or financial safety nets. In this paper, qualitative fieldwork is detailed which commenced in Korogocho, an informal settlement Nairobi, Kenya, imme...

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