GEOG 3050 Chapter Notes -Indoor Air Quality, Chronic Poverty, Poverty Trap
23 Apr 2013
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Ill health and poverty: a literature review on health in informal settlements. Introduction in informal settlements, residents suffer disproportionately from ill- health throughout their life-course: households more likely to experience disease, injury, premature death ill-health may combine with poverty to create disadvantages, approx. 1 billion people living in slums: poor-quality housing, lack of infrastructure, minimal access to refuse collection, health care, etc. Mdg target 11 - significant improvements for only one-tenth of slum dwellers by 2020 - inadequate improvements needed on wider scale and with holistic understanding of health. Health inequalities begin at birth, reproduced over a lifetime, may be recreated through vulnerabilities to climate change and a. Poverty and health over the life-course: infant and childhood conditions. In 2000 - cooking with solid fuels is linked to almost 2 million deaths and 38. 5 million disability-adjusted lives: adolescence and adulthood.
