Improved health outcomes in urban slums through infrastructure upgrading

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 935-940

  Butala, Neel M ^a   VanRooyen, Michael J ^b   Patel, Ronak Bhailal ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

India; Intervention; Microfinance; Millennium development goals; Morbidity; Sanitation; Urban health; Urban slums; Waterborne illness

Indexed keywords

DISEASE INCIDENCE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH RISK; MICROFINANCE; MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOAL; MORBIDITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SANITATION; URBAN POPULATION; URBANIZATION; WATERBORNE DISEASE;

ARTICLE; GENERAL ASPECTS OF DISEASE; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INDIA; INFECTION PREVENTION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POVERTY; PROBABILITY; SANITATION; URBAN AREA; URBAN SLUM; WATER SUPPLY; WATERBORNE ILLNESS;

AHMEDABAD; GUJARAT; INDIA;

EID: 77955092887     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.05.037     Document Type: Article

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