Slum Health: Arresting COVID-19 and Improving Well-Being in Urban Informal Settlements

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2020-04-24
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Springer Link
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Corburn, Jason
Vlahov, David
Mberu, Blessing
Riley, Lee
Caiaffa, Waleska Teixeira
Rashid, Sabina Faiz
Ko, Albert
Patel, Sheela
Jukur, Smurti
Martínez-Herrera, Eliana
Jayasinghe, Saroj
Agarwal, Siddharth
Nguendo-Yongsi, Blaise
Weru, Jane
Ouma, Smith
Edmundo, Katia
Oni, Tolu
Ayadv, Hany
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http://hdl.handle.net/10361/16538
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Corburn, J., Vlahov, D., Mberu, B., Riley, L., Caiaffa, W. T., Rashid, S. F., . . . Ayad, H. (2020). Slum health: Arresting COVID-19 and improving well-being in urban informal settlements. Journal of Urban Health, 97(3), 348-357. doi:10.1007/s11524-020-00438-6
Abstract
The informal settlements of the Global South are the least prepared for the pandemic of COVID-19 since basic needs such as water, toilets, sewers, drainage, waste collection, and secure and adequate housing are already in short supply or non-existent. Further, space constraints, violence, and overcrowding in slums make physical distancing and self-quarantine impractical, and the rapid spread of an infection highly likely
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Slums; Informal settlements; Equity; Coronavirus; Community health; Global health
 
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This article was published in Springer Link [ Copyright © 2020, The New York Academy of Medicine] and the definite version is available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11524-020-00438-6 The Journal's website is at: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11524-020-00438-6#rightslink
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s11524-020-00438-6
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Brac James P. Grant School of Public Health
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