Ezeh, A;
Oyebode, O;
Satterthwaite, D;
Chen, Y-F;
Ndugwa, R;
Sartori, J;
Mberu, B;
... Lilford, RJ; + view all
(2017)
The history, geography, and sociology of slums and the health problems of people who live in slums.
The Lancet
, 389
(10068)
pp. 547-558.
10.1016/S0140-6736(16)31650-6.
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Abstract
Massive slums have become major features of cities in many low-income and middle-income countries. Here, in the first in a Series of two papers, we discuss why slums are unhealthy places with especially high risks of infection and injury. We show that children are especially vulnerable, and that the combination of malnutrition and recurrent diarrhoea leads to stunted growth and longer-term effects on cognitive development. We find that the scientific literature on slum health is underdeveloped in comparison to urban health, and poverty and health. This shortcoming is important because health is affected by factors arising from the shared physical and social environment, which have effects beyond those of poverty alone. In the second paper we will consider what can be done to improve health and make recommendations for the development of slum health as a field of study.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The history, geography, and sociology of slums and the health problems of people who live in slums |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/S0140-6736(16)31650-6 |
| Publisher version: | http://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(16)31650-6 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > Development Planning Unit |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10044920 |
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