Off the map: The health and social implications of being a non-notified slum in India

Environment and Urbanization

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 643-663

  Subbaraman, Ramnath ^a   O'brien, Jennifer ^b   Shitole, Tejal ^a   Shitole, Shrutika ^a   Sawant, Kiran ^a   Bloom, David E ^b   Patil Deshmukh, Anita ^a  

^a PUKAR 272 Municipal Tenements   (India)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

governance; health; housing; inequality; poverty; security of tenure; slums

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING WORLD; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMANITARIAN AID; INFORMAL SETTLEMENT; LEGAL RIGHTS; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; POVERTY; TENURE SYSTEM;

INDIA; MAHARASHTRA; MUMBAI;

EID: 84867422189     PISSN: 09562478     EISSN: 17460301     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956247812456356     Document Type: Article

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