Slum Health: From the Cell to the Street

Slum Health: From the Cell to the Street

edited by Jason Corburn, fl. 2016 and Lee Riley, fl. 2016 (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2016), 338 page(s)

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Abstract / Summary
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.
Field of Interest
Social Work
Publisher
University of California Press
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2016 University of California Press
Content Type
Book
Duration
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Format
Text
Page Count
338
Publication Year
2016
Publisher
University of California Press
Place Published / Released
Oakland, CA
Subject
Social Work, Social Sciences, Psychology & Counseling, Health Care, Poverty, Slums, Poverty, Public health, Macro

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