ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2020
Slums, Space, and State of Health-A Link between Settlement Morphology and Health Data.
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- Factors influencing access to primary healthcare services among households in urban slums of Mogadishu, Somalia: a cross-sectional study.BMC health services research · 2026Article
- Differences in walking access to healthcare facilities between formal and informal areas in 19 sub-Saharan African cities.Communications medicine · 2025Article
- Identifying deprived "slum" neighbourhoods in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area of Ghana using census and remote sensing data.World development · 2023Article
- Health and social needs of older adults in slum communities in Ghana: a phenomenological approach used in 2021.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2023Article
- Using Open-Access Data to Explore Relations between Urban Landscapes and Diarrhoeal Diseases in Côte d'Ivoire.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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- Health needs assessment of the residents of the informal settlements in South-Eastern Iran: A case study of Bam city.Journal of education and health promotion · 2021Article
- COVID-19 and Slums: A Pandemic Highlights Gaps in Knowledge About Urban Poverty.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2020Article
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Abstract
Approximately 1 billion slum dwellers worldwide are exposed to increased health risks due to their spatial environment. Recent studies have therefore called for the spatial environment to be introduced as a separate dimension in medical studies. Hence, this study investigates how and on which spatial scale relationships between the settlement morphology and the health status of the inhabitants can be identified. To this end, we summarize the current literature on the identification of slums from a geographical perspective and review the current literature on slums and health of the last five years (376 studies) focusing on the considered scales in the studies. We show that the majority of medical studies are restricted to certain geographical regions. It is desirable that the number of studies be adapted to the number of the respective population. On the basis of these studies, we develop a framework to investigate the relationship between space and health. Finally, we apply our methodology to investigate the relationship between the prevalence of slums and different health metrics using data of the global burden of diseases for different prefectures in Brazil on a subnational level.
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