TY - JOUR
T1 - The history, geography, and sociology of slums and the health problems of people who live in slums
AU - Ezeh, Alex
AU - Oyebode, Oyinlola
AU - Satterthwaite, David
AU - Chen, Yen-Fu
AU - Ndugwa, Robert
AU - Sartori, Jo
AU - Mberu, Blessing
AU - Melendez-Torres, G J
AU - Haregu, Tilahun
AU - Watson, Samuel I
AU - Caiaffa, Waleska
AU - Capon, Anthony
AU - Lilford, Richard J
N1 - Copyright © 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
PY - 2017/2/4
Y1 - 2017/2/4
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Health Status Disparities
KW - Humans
KW - Poverty Areas
KW - Socioeconomic Factors
U2 - 10.1016/S0140-6736(16)31650-6
DO - 10.1016/S0140-6736(16)31650-6
M3 - Review article
C2 - 27760703
SN - 0140-6736
VL - 389
SP - 547
EP - 558
JO - The Lancet
JF - The Lancet
IS - 10068
ER -