Sentences with phrase «urban slum populations»
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Small rural towns have been decimated, while the population of urban slums and sprawling suburbs has greatly increased.
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Predictive models suggest the ongoing Zika epidemic may run out of steam after two or three more seasons, but these models do not consider how urban slums and their highly mobile populations affect the disease's dynamics, according to the study.
«Zika is just another example of how populations that reside in these urban slum communities are ignored, neglected and invisible,» said study author Lee Riley, a professor in the Berkeley School of Public Health, who has spent nearly 25 years studying urban slums in Brazil.
But as the world's urban population surges, and more people crowd into rat - plagued slums, the rodents are getting renewed attention from researchers and public health experts.
It is important that organizations focus some of their resources in developing programs that will benefit poor illiterate youth population in rural and urban slums.
The most affected populations are the urban poor — i.e. slum dwellers in developing countries — who tend to live along river banks, on hillsides and slopes prone to landslides, near polluted grounds, on decertified land, in unstable structures vulnerable to earthquakes, and along waterfronts in coastal areas.
Slum Communities Have «Built - In Resilience» With urban populations soaring around the world, of course efforts need to be made to ensure that people have safe, healthy living conditions.
There was a National Dispersion Policy that had the aim of «reducing population and building densities in residential areas of greatest vulnerability by adoption of program of urban redevelopment and slum clearance.»
It is estimated that one third of the world's urban population (923.9 million) live in «overcrowded and unserviced slums, often situated on marginal and dangerous land» (i.e., steep slopes, food plains, and industrial zones), and that 43 % are in developing countries (UN-Habitat, 2003).