Slum Health

Urban slum dwellers-especially in emerging-economy countries-are often poor, live in squalor, and suffer unnecessarily from disease, disability, premature death, and reduced life expectancy. Yet living in a city can and should be healthy. Slum Health exposes how and why slums can be unhealthy; reveals that not all slums are equal in terms of the hazards and health issues faced by residents; and suggests how slum dwellers, scientists, and social movements can come together to make slum life safer, more just, and healthier. Editors Jason Corburn and Lee Riley argue that valuing both new biologic and "street" science-professional and lay knowledge-is crucial for improving the well-being of the millions of urban poor living in slums.

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List of Illustrations List of Tables
Prelude: Memoirs of a Kenya Slum Dweller
Acknowledgments

Introduction 1 Jason Corburn and Lee Riley

Part One. Slum Health: Framing Research, Practice, and Policy

1. From the Cell to the Street: Coproducing Slum Health
   Jason Corburn and Lee Riley
2. Slum Health: Research to Action
   Alon Unger and Lee Riley
3. Frameworks for Slum Health Equity
   Jason Corburn
4. Urban Poverty: An Urgent Public Health Issue
   Susan Mercado, Kirsten Havemann, Mojgan Sami, and Hiroshi Ueda

5. Urban Informal Settlement Upgrading and Health Equity
   Jason Corburn and Alice Sverdlik

   Part Two. From The Cell to the Street: Slum Health in Brazil 101

6. Favela Health in Pau da Lima, Salvador, Brazil
   Alon Unger, Albert Ko, and Guillermo Douglass-Jaime
7. Impact of Environment and Social Gradient on Leptospira Infection in Urban Slums
   Renato B. Reis, Guilherme S. Ribeiro, Ridalva D. M. Felzemburgh, Francisco S. Santana, Sharif Mohr, Astrid X. T. O. Melendez, Adriano Queiroz, Andréia C. Santos, Romy R. Ravines, Wagner
   S. Tassinari, Marília S. Carvalho, Mitermayer G. Reis, and Albert I. Ko

8. Factors Associated with Group A Streptococcus emm Type Diversification in a Large Urban Setting in Brazil: A Cross-Sectional Study
   Sara Y. Tartof, Joice N. Reis, Aurelio N. Andrade, Regina T. Ramos, Mitermayer G. Reis, and Lee W. Riley

   Part Three. urban upgrading and health in nairobi, kenya 149

9. Coproducing Slum Health in Nairobi, Kenya
   Jason Corburn and Jack Makau
10. Sanitation and Women's Health in Nairobi's Slums
    Jason Corburn and Irene Karanja

11. Microsavings and Well-Being in a Nairobi Informal Settlement
    Jason Corburn, Jane Wairutu, Joseph Kimani, Benson Osumba, and Heena Shah

    Part Four. Understanding Slum Health in Urban India

12. Health Disparities in Urban India
    Siddharth Agarwal

13. Improved Health Outcomes in Urban Slums through Infrastructure Upgrading
    Neel M. Butala, Michael J. Van Rooyen, and Ronak Bhailal Patel

    Part Five. Knowledge Gaps and Future Considerations

14. Toward Slum Health Equity: Research, Action, and Training
    Jason Corburn and Lee Riley 275

    List of Contributors
    Index 301