impairment and Alzheimer disease.1 For China, it is reported that there were 9.19 million cases of any cognitive impairment in mainland China alone in 2010 and the numbers are expected to rise in the coming decades.2 Obviously, cognitive impairment will be a new epidemic in the future unless major public health policies and preventive measures target brain health. The International Association ...

no trace of the wild talk to which some of his followers have accustomed us. To demand " millions of houses " in the twinkling of an eye is to cry for the moon. If thousands of millions of money were available for the purpose to-morrow the thing could not be done. Men are as essential as money, and men at present are not forthcoming. It is true that the'Prime Minister is sanguine of being able,...

In the present days, we are watching in Romania, a process of differentiation of urban spaces according to the conditions of living, regardless of size and level of their development. The period of economic transition has changed in worst the drawbacks already existing in slums, which have been mainly marked by economic and social seclusion, absence of any infrastructure, dilapidated overcrowde...

A large proportion of preschool children in India, as in other developing countries, live in the urban slums. Among them, early identification of developmental delay will be beneficial. In the developed countries, rapid prescreening Denver Questionnaire (R-PDQ) is currently being used for community screening of developmental delay. This is followed by administering the Denver Development Screen...

Urban food insecurity has become a growing humanitarian problem in most developing countries due to population increase, rural-urban migration, widespread poverty and increasing cost of food. In Kenya, an estimated 12 million people live in urban areas of which 5.7 million (about 48%) reside in slums or informal settlements. The slums are particularly at high risk of vulnerability to food insec...

In the present study, Quasi-experimental design was used to evaluate the effectiveness of structure teaching programme on domiciliary management and prevention of upper respiratory tract infections among the mothers of under five children at urban slums. The study was conducted in selected urban slums at Bangalore. The sample consisted of 60 mothers, experimental Group30 and Control Group-30. P...

Increasing global urbanization has led to the growth of urban slums, challenged by fragmented and inefficient health care services. This is evident in Kibera (Nairobi, Kenya), one of Africa’s largest slums. With an estimated average population of 270,000, it is serviced by over 100 clinics [1], operating in isolation of one another. The Kibera Medical Record Initiative (KMRI) aims to develop an...

The large and continuous increase in India's urban population and the concomitant growth of the population residing in slums has resulted in overstraining of infrastructure and deterioration in public health. The link between urbanization, a degraded environment, inaccessibility to healthcare and a deteriorating quality of life is significant and particularly evident in the sharp inequities in ...

BACKGROUND It is generally assumed that urban slum residents have worse health status when compared with other urban populations, but better health status than their rural counterparts. This belief/assumption is often because of their physical proximity and assumed better access to health care services in urban areas. However, a few recent studies have cast doubt on this belief. Whether slum dw...

non-communicable diseases (ncds) exist in slums as the inhabitants adopt an urbanized lifestyle which places them at a higher risk for. lack of knowledge about the morbidity, complications and the method of control contributes to a large percentage of undetected and untreated cases.this cross-sectional survey polled 2,434 respondents from ijora oloye, ajegunle and makoko, three urban slums in l...