The 2005 census and mapping of slums in Bangladesh: Design, select results and application

International Journal of Health Geographics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Angeles, Gustavo ^a,b   Lance, Peter ^a   Barden O'Fallon, Janine ^a   Islam, Nazrul ^c   Mahbub, A Q M ^c   Nazem, Nurul Islam ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b IL   (United States)

^c Centre for Urban Studies   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENSUS; DEVELOPING WORLD; FORECASTING METHOD; GIS; HEALTH POLICY; MAPPING; POPULATION SIZE; POVERTY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SATELLITE IMAGERY; URBAN POPULATION;

ASIA; BANGLADESH; EURASIA; SOUTH ASIA;

ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BANGLADESH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEALTH; HUMAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; POVERTY; SOCIOECONOMICS; URBAN POPULATION;

BANGLADESH; CENSUSES; HUMANS; MAPS AS TOPIC; POVERTY AREAS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN HEALTH; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 67649866314     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476072X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-072X-8-32     Document Type: Article

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