"Urban slum dwellers...especially in emerging-economy cities...are often poor, live in squalor, and suffer unnecessarily from disease, disability, premature death, and poor life expectancy. Yet living in a city can and should be healthy. Slum Health highlights why and how slums can be unhealthy...

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Other Authors:	Corburn, Jason (Editor), Riley, Lee W. (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Oakland, California University of California Press [2016]
Subjects:	Stadt Slums > Health aspects Urban health > Brazil Urban health > India Urban health > Kenya > Nairobi Cities and towns > Health aspects Urban ecology (Sociology) Slum Gesundheitswesen Brasilien Indien Kenia Aufsatzsammlung
Online Access:	Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:	"Urban slum dwellers...especially in emerging-economy cities...are often poor, live in squalor, and suffer unnecessarily from disease, disability, premature death, and poor life expectancy. Yet living in a city can and should be healthy. Slum Health highlights why and how slums can be unhealthy, reveals that not all slums are equal in terms of the hazards and health issues faced by residents, and suggests how slum dwellers, scientists, and social movements can come together to make slum life safer, more just, and healthier. Editors Jason Corburn and Lee Riley argue that both new biologic and "street" science...or valuing professional and lay knowledge...are crucial for improving the well-being of the millions of urban poor living in slums."...Provided by publisher
Item Description:	Includes index
Physical Description:	xx, 315 Seiten Illustrationen, Diagramme, Tabellen, Karten
ISBN:	9780520281066 9780520281073