Nairobi Urban Health and demographic Surveillance System. The reliability and accuracy of the items are tested using both the …

housing on health and on income? How do we choose between policies in completely different areas, such as an education policy … and a health policy? Treasury's Living Standards Framework provides one possible starting point, but it provides little …

We investigated the impacts of piped water on water quality, sanitation, hygiene and health outcomes in marginalized … group of households to identify gains in water-sanitation, hygiene and health outcomes. We found that the BMDA piped water … health benefits, such as decreased diarrhea incidence of in under-five children, improved child anthropometrics stunting …

quality of life is compared across groups, with ‘housing and infrastructure’ and ‘social relationships’ explaining the …

“home study.” Migrant adolescent girls faced sub-optimal access to public health and nutrition care services owing to lack … of information about services, poor outreach services from Primary Urban Health Centers, weak linkages between urban slum … government health facilities are located, limited social networks in the area to provide support and information also contribute …

challenges in improving immunization coverage in urban slums; immunization being one of the most successful public health … by 2010. Urban poor, many residing in slums, comprise about one-fourth of India’s 285 million urban population. 60% of … conditions and high population density in slums expedite disease transmission. Comparisons of urban-rural disease incidence …

is not explicit in Sen's original set-up, but is key to the development and happiness of young children. A second set of … association with parenting inputs is stronger. Thirdly, we report happiness regressions for the children which seem to suggest …