Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Slum health: Diseases of neglected populations

http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-698X/7/2


Continued neglect of ever-expanding urban slum populations in the world could inevitably lead to greater expenditure and diversion of health care resources to the management of end-stage complications of diseases that are preventable. A new approach to health assessment and characterization of social-cluster determinants of health in urban slums is urgently needed.

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