Slum Health : From the Cell to the Street / Jason Corburn, Lee Riley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Corburn, Jason, Editor.

Riley, Lee, Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban ecology (Sociology).

Cities and towns--Health aspects.

Cities and towns.

Urban health--Kenya--Nairobi.

Urban health.

Urban health--India.

Urban health--Brazil.

Slums--Health aspects.

Slums.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (373 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Urban slum dwellers-especially in emerging-economy countries-are often poor, live in squalor, and suffer unnecessarily from disease, disability, premature death, and reduced life expectancy. Yet living in a city can and should be healthy. Slum Health exposes how and why 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 valuing both new biologic and "street" science-professional and lay knowledge-is crucial for improving the well-being of the millions of urban poor living in slums.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Tables

Prelude

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. From the Cell to the Street: Coproducing Slum Health

2. Slum Health: Research to Action

3. Frameworks for Slum Health Equity

4. Urban Poverty: An Urgent Public Health Issue

5. Urban Informal Settlement Upgrading and Health Equity

6. Favela Health in Pau da Lima, Salvador, Brazil

7. Impact of Environment and Social Gradient on Leptospira Infection in Urban Slums

8. Factors Associated with Group A Streptococcus emm Type Diversifi cation in a Large Urban Setting in Brazil: A Cross-Sectional Study

9. Coproducing Slum Health in Nairobi, Kenya

10. Sanitation and Women's Health in Nairobi's Slums

11. Microsavings and Well-Being in a Nairobi Informal Settlement

12. Health Disparities in Urban India

13. Improved Health Outcomes in Urban Slums through Infrastructure Upgrading

14. Toward Slum Health Equity: Research, Action, and Training

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780520962798

0520962796

OCLC:

928136992