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Improving the health and welfare of people who live in slums

Lilford, RJ; Oyebode, O; Satterthwaite, D; Melendez-Torres, GJ; Chen, Y-F; Mberu, B; Watson, SI; ... Ezeh, A; + view all (2016) Improving the health and welfare of people who live in slums. The Lancet , 389 (10068) pp. 559-570. 10.1016/S0140-6736(16)31848-7. Green open access

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Abstract

Summary In the first paper in this Series we assessed theoretical and empirical evidence and concluded that the health of people living in slums is a function not only of poverty but of intimately shared physical and social environments. In this paper we extend the theory of so-called neighbourhood effects. Slums offer high returns on investment because beneficial effects are shared across many people in densely populated neighbourhoods. Neighbourhood effects also help explain how and why the benefits of interventions vary between slum and non-slum spaces and between slums. We build on this spatial concept of slums to argue that, in all low-income and-middle-income countries, census tracts should henceforth be designated slum or non-slum both to inform local policy and as the basis for research surveys that build on censuses. We argue that slum health should be promoted as a topic of enquiry alongside poverty and health.

Type: Article
Title: Improving the health and welfare of people who live in slums
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(16)31848-7
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.4103/1450-1147.215495
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.
Keywords: Science & Technology, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Medicine, General & Internal, General & Internal Medicine, CLUSTER-RANDOMIZED-TRIAL, MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES, COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT, ECONOMIC EVALUATIONS, URBAN SLUMS, INDIA, INTERVENTIONS, SANITATION, CHILDREN, IMPACT
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/10044935
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