Slum Health: From Understanding to Action
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The defining physical and legal characteristics of slums profoundly affect the health of these communities and may also serve as potential targets for immediate intervention.
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Overcrowding and poor housing conditions can increase residents' susceptibility to other diseases that spread through direct person-to-person contact or via droplets, including skin lesions, skin superinfections, and tuberculosis.
“Overcrowding and poor housing conditions can also increase residents' susceptibility to other diseases that spread through direct person-to-person contact or via droplets, including skin lesions, skin superinfections ( i.e. , secondary infections caused by organisms that are resistant to treatment used for initial infection), and tuberculosis 38 , and antibiotics used to treat these infections can”
From Urban informal settlements as hotspots of antimicrobial resistance and the need to curb environmental transmission. (2020) · cites this paper as [38]
The Overcrowding section (page not provided) links crowded slum dwellings to respiratory infections and reports higher tuberculosis rates among children in Manila squatter settlements. The Inadequate access to safe water section links limited bathing to scabies and bacterial skin infections, but the paper does not link skin lesions or skin superinfections specifically to overcrowding or describe their spread by direct contact or droplets. (LLM, conf=0.86)
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- Authors
- Unger, A., & Riley, L. W.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Los Angeles (US)
- University of California, Berkeley (US)
- Corresponding author
- Unger, Alon
- ORCID
- Riley, Lee W
- Venue
- PLoS Medicine
- Publisher
- Public Library of Science (PLoS)
- Published
- 2007-10-23
- Volume
- 4
- Issue
- 10
- Pages
- e295
- ISSN
- 1549-1277 (ISSN-L)
- 1549-1676
- PMC
- PMC2039756
- OpenAlex
- W2147036777
- Cited by
- 176
- References
- 2
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- FWCI
- 3.31
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Locations
- PLoS Medicine (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Urban Studies › Urban and Rural Development Challenges
- Social Sciences › Health › Public Health and Social Inequalities
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis › Public Health and Environmental Issues
- Keywords
- slum health, slums, urban poverty, health interventions, housing conditions
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Child, Female, Goals, Health Priorities, Health Promotion, Health Services Needs and Demand, Health Status, Humans, Male, Medical Indigency, Population Density, Poverty, Poverty Areas, Social Problems, United Nations, Urban Health, Global Health, Healthcare Disparities
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