Resultados de búsqueda - "slum"

The epidemiology of good nutritional status among children from a population with a high prevalence of malnutrition por Pryer, Jane A., Rogers, S., Rahman, Atiur

“…To identify socio-economic demographic and environmental factors that predict better height-for-age for children under 5 years of age in a Dhaka slum population.A panel survey, conducted between 1995 and 1997. …”
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Spatial epidemiology of hospital-diagnosed brucellosis in Kampala, Uganda por Makita, K., Fèvre, Eric M., Waiswa, C., Kaboyo, W., Eisler, M.C., Welburn, S.C.

“…The level of urbanization was not associated with the incidence of brucellosis but living in a slum area was a significant risk factor among urban dwellers (odds ratio 1.97, 95% CI: 1.10-3.61). …”
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How important are supermarkets for the diets of the urban poor in Africa? por Wanyama, Rosina, Gödecke, Theda, Chege, Christine G. Kiria, Qaim, Matin

“…Supermarkets account for only 3% and 0.4% of all food expenditures of slum dwellers in Nairobi and Kampala, respectively. …”
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Does retail food diversity in urban food environments influence consumer diets? por Chege, Christine G. Kiria, Wanyama, Rosina, Lundy, Mark M., Nguru, Wilson, Jäger, Matthias

“…In this study, we assess the way in which the Nairobi urban food environment—availability, accessibility, affordability, desirability, convenience and marketing—influences the dietary choices and quality of poor urban consumers, by combining market-level diversity scores (MLDS) with household and individual data collected from resource-poor (slum) neighbourhoods in Nairobi, Kenya. We find that urban-poor settings are characterized by a variety of food retail venues, including informal markets such as kiosks, mom-and-pop shops and tabletop vendors, as well as modern retail outlets such as supermarkets. …”
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Food security and nutrition: Growing cities, new challenges por Ruel, Marie T., Garrett, James L., Yosef, Sivan

“…Limited access to healthcare, safe water, and sanitation in cities leads to severe health and nutrition inequalities for the urban poor—especially slum dwellers.…”
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Does price discounts, nutrition awareness and food safety awareness improve sale of fresh fruits and vegetables (FFVs) among the urban poor? por Chege, Christine Gacheri Kiria, Mbugua, M., Onyango, Kevin, Kabach, J., Lundy, Mark M.

“…The study uses panel data collected from 300 FFVs’ vendors in the slums of Nairobi who are categorized by three treatment groups (price discount, nutrition information and food safety information) and a control group. …”
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Effects of COVID-19 on dietary behavior of urban consumers in Nairobi, Kenya por Chege, Christine Gacheri Kiria, Onyango, Kevin, Kabach, Joram, Lundy, Mark M.

“…Our research demonstrates the need to attend to slums and vulnerable, poor consumers when enacting mitigation measures or designing and implementing policy.…”
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Bangladesh, Baseline Data of SHAHAR Project, CARE-Bangladesh, 2000 por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…The SHAHAR Baseline Survey was conducted in August 2000 in slums and low-income settlements within the municipal areas of Jessore and Tongi in Bangladesh. …”
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Agriculture and the economic transformation of Ethiopia por Mellor, John W., Dorosh, Paul A.

“…High agricultural growth also helps avoid the creation of megacities with large slum populations. In order to achieve this rapid agricultural growth with positive economy-wide linkages, however, it is necessary to engage "middle farmers", large enough to adopt new technologies and produce significant marketed surpluses, but small and numerous enough to have spending patterns that drive a vibrant rural non-farm sector. …”
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Produktionsdjur i Afrikas städer por Halvarsson, Malin

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SARS-CoV-2 in eight municipalities of the Colombian tropics: high immunity, clinical and sociodemographic outcomes por Garay, Evelin, Serrano Coll, Hector, Rivero, Ricardo, Gastelbondo, Bertha, Faccini Martinez, Alvaro, Berrocal, Jose, Perez, Alejandra, Badillo, Maria, Martinez Bravo, Caty, Botero, Yesica, Arrieta, German, Calderon, Alfonso, Galeano, Ketty, Lopez, Yesica, Miranda, Jorge, Guzman, Camilo, Contreras, Veronica, Arosemena, Alejandra, Contreras, Hector, Brango Tarra, Eimi, Oviedo Pastrana, Misael Enrique, Mattar, Salim

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Youth and ICTs: The power of information por Hagen, Erica, Maron, Mikel

“…The Map Kibera project works with young people from one of Africa's biggest slums. They use GIS, SMS, video and the web to gather data and make it available to the community, where it can be applied to influence policies related to the area…”
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Strategies for improving complementary feeding practices in informal settlements of Mumbai por Jayaraman, Anuja, Chanani, Sheila, Waingankar, Anagha, More, Neena Shah, Huestis, Arja, Banthia, Jayant, Pantvaidya, Shanti

“…In 2014, a baseline survey sampled 2,582 children under the age of three from a population of 150,000 within the informal settlement of Dharavi, Mumbai, one of the largest slums in Asia. The survey found alarming levels of malnutrition among children—18 percent of the children under three were wasted, 25 percent were stunted, and 28 percent were underweight (Aahar 2014).…”
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Does subsidized childcare help poor working women in urban areas? evaluation of a government-sponsored program in Guatemala City por Ruel, Marie T., de la Briere, Benedicte, Hallman, Kelly, Coj de Salazar, Nora

“…This paper presents preliminary findings from an evaluation of the HCP carried out in 1998 in urban slums of Guatemala City. The evaluation included both an operations (or process) evaluation and an impact evaluation. …”
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Maquiladoras and market mamas: women's work and childcare in Guatemala City and Accra por Quisumbing, Agnes R., Hallman, Kelly, Ruel, Marie T.

“…This paper analyses work, childcare, and earnings of mothers in the slums of Guatemala City and Accra. Similar factors affect decisions to work and to use formal daycare, but the importance of childcare varies with the role of the formal labour sector. …”
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Keeping food on the table: Urban food environments in Nairobi under COVID-19 por Chege, Christine G. Kiria, Mbugua, Mercy M., Onyango, Kevin, Lundy, Mark M.

“…There is limited evidence of the effects of the pandemic on food environments, especially in the informal neighborhoods/slums of urban towns or cities. This study characterizes the food environment (formal and informal outlets) in low- and middle-income urban neighborhoods of Nairobi, Kenya during the current COVID-19 pandemic. …”
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Agricultural growth, urbanization, and poverty reduction por Dorosh, Paul A., Thurlow, James

“…However, urban populations are growing rapidly in low-income countries and a large share of urban residents are poor and live in slums. Even maintaining urban investments at current levels will be insufficient and could become a constraint to national development, including efforts to transform agriculture-food systems.…”
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Water for food security, nutrition and social justice por Mehta, Lyla, Oweis, Theib, Ringler, Claudia, Schreiner, Barbara, Varghese, Shiney

“…In many slums and informal settlements in the global South, the quality of water accessed by poor people is so bad that it adversely affects health and nutrition, especially of children and babies. …”
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Does subsidized childcare help poor working women in urban areas? evaluation of a government-sponsored program in Guatemala City por Ruel, Marie T., de la Briere, Benedicte, Hallman, Kelly, Quisumbing, Agnes R., Coj de Salazar, Nora

“…This paper presents preliminary findings from an evaluation of the HCP carried out in 1998 in urban slums of Guatemala City. The evaluation included both an operations (or process) evaluation and an impact evaluation. …”
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Does subsidized childcare help poor working women in urban areas? evaluation of a government-sponsored program in Guatemala City por Ruel, Marie T., de la Briere, Benedicte, Hallman, Kelly, Quisumbing, Agnes R., Coj de Salazar, Nora

“…This paper presents preliminary findings from an evaluation of the HCP carried out in 1998 in urban slums of Guatemala City. The evaluation included both an operations (or process) evaluation and an impact evaluation. …”
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