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Book SynopsisUrban slum dwellers - especially in emerging-economy countries - are often poor, live in squalor, and suffer unnecessarily from disease, premature death, and reduced life expectancy. This book exposes how and why slums can be unhealthy and reveals that not all slums are equal in terms of the hazards and health issues faced by residents.
Trade Review"Ultimately, the editors’ conviction in convening
Slum Health: From the Cell to the Street is resoundingly clear: Scholars of all stripes have a responsibility “to recognize the human right of the urban poor to lead a healthy life and to offer some strategies toward this goal”. This volume moves us forward on both counts." * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *
"Refreshing and new, ... the volume offers an extremely helpful opening to a realm of medical science literature relating to informal settlements." * Latin America Research Review *
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Tables
Prelude: Memoirs of a Kenya Slum Dweller
Acknowledgments
Introduction 1 Jason Corburn and Lee Riley
Part One. Slum Health: Framing Research, Practice, and Policy
1. From the Cell to the Street: Coproducing Slum Health
Jason Corburn and Lee Riley
2. Slum Health: Research to Action
Alon Unger and Lee Riley
3. Frameworks for Slum Health Equity
Jason Corburn
4. Urban Poverty: An Urgent Public Health Issue
Susan Mercado, Kirsten Havemann, Mojgan Sami, and Hiroshi Ueda
5. Urban Informal Settlement Upgrading and Health Equity
Jason Corburn and Alice Sverdlik
Part Two. From The Cell to the Street: Slum Health in Brazil 101
6. Favela Health in Pau da Lima, Salvador, Brazil
Alon Unger, Albert Ko, and Guillermo Douglass-Jaime
7. Impact of Environment and Social Gradient on Leptospira Infection in Urban Slums
Renato B. Reis, Guilherme S. Ribeiro, Ridalva D. M. Felzemburgh, Francisco S. Santana, Sharif Mohr, Astrid X. T. O. Melendez, Adriano Queiroz, Andréia C. Santos, Romy R. Ravines, Wagner
S. Tassinari, Marília S. Carvalho, Mitermayer G. Reis, and Albert I. Ko
8. Factors Associated with Group A Streptococcus emm Type Diversification in a Large Urban Setting in Brazil: A Cross-Sectional Study
Sara Y. Tartof, Joice N. Reis, Aurelio N. Andrade, Regina T. Ramos, Mitermayer G. Reis, and Lee W. Riley
Part Three. urban upgrading and health in nairobi, kenya 149
9. Coproducing Slum Health in Nairobi, Kenya
Jason Corburn and Jack Makau
10. Sanitation and Women’s Health in Nairobi’s Slums
Jason Corburn and Irene Karanja
11. Microsavings and Well-Being in a Nairobi Informal Settlement
Jason Corburn, Jane Wairutu, Joseph Kimani, Benson Osumba, and Heena Shah
Part Four. Understanding Slum Health in Urban India
12. Health Disparities in Urban India
Siddharth Agarwal
13. Improved Health Outcomes in Urban Slums through Infrastructure Upgrading
Neel M. Butala, Michael J. Van Rooyen, and Ronak Bhailal Patel
Part Five. Knowledge Gaps and Future Considerations
14. Toward Slum Health Equity: Research, Action, and Training
Jason Corburn and Lee Riley 275
List of Contributors
Index 301
