Items tagged:
Health
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Introduction to urban health equity: addressing risks, promoting gender equality and fostering wellbeing in informal settings
With low-quality housing, deficient infrastructure, food insecurity and precarious livelihoods, people living and working in informal settings face multiple health risks.
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The health, wellbeing and climate benefits of slum upgrading
Upgrading informal settlements can foster wellbeing while also building resilience to climate change, particularly when equitable, far-sighted strategies seek to partner closely with communities and address multiple health risks
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Tackling air pollution in informal settlements in Kenya
The AIR (Action for Interdisciplinary Air Pollution Research) Network was established to develop integrated transdisciplinary methods to address air pollution in informal settlements in Kenya. IIED is one of 15 organisations in the network and focused on developing policy relevant messaging
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Risks to health in informal settlements
Informal settlements (‘slums’) are widespread in cities across many low-income and middle-income countries and are now home to more than o
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Climate, health and urban informal economies – stories of need and change
‘Informal’ workers’ precarious and risky labour underpins many urban economies. Overlooked by policymakers, their health suffers with climate change. Lived experience from Indore, India and Harare and Masvingo in Zimbabwe illuminates three areas where urgent action is needed
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Resilience through flexibility – the story of peri-urban agricultural workers in India
Peri-urban agriculture is located on the fringes of a town or city.
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Climate change, health and informal workers – highlighting urban challenges and responses from India and Zimbabwe
Across many African and Asian cities, the informal economy provides most livelihoods as well as key goods and services that enable these urban areas to function and to thrive.
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Household energy: a missing ingredient in nutrition debates
A growing body of research is tackling the nutritional and environmental outcomes of food systems together, but is it time to look at the role of household energy in this debate?
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Rethinking household surveys reveals true picture of health inequality
Groundbreaking work by a Nairobi-based research institute, the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC), shows the scale of health inequality in Nairobi and its informal settlements
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Multiple housing and climate-related vulnerabilities of informal workers in Indore, India
While informal workers in Indore, India contend with multi-faceted vulnerabilities, recent research shows a gradual transition towards resilience. Guest bloggers Siddharth Agarwal and Kanupriya Kothiwal discuss the findings.
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Definitions matter – part two
How is it possible to monitor progress, or otherwise, towards the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for water and sanitation without clear definitions?
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The case for sewers
On World Toilet Day 2021 we take a look at the surprisingly controversial role of sewers in countering poor-quality sanitation in cities in the global South
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Street vendors and garbage pickers need protection from climate extremes
Around two billion people globally are considered informal workers, in jobs like street vending, agriculture or collecting and recycling plastic rubbish. Many earn on a daily basis and lack savings, healthcare or other social protections. So they typically can’t afford to stop working in the face of COVID-19 and other emergencies
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Do urban populations benefit from urban bias?
Conventional wisdom suggests that most poverty is in rural areas. But as there is so little research, how can we know if this is true?
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Making strides to improve health and climate resilience in Zimbabwe’s cities
Guest blogger Artwell Kadungure and Alice Sverdlik report on how real progress is being made to improve the lives and livelihoods of informal workers as a result of collaboration with key policymakers
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Getting attention to a much-neglected health agenda: occupational health and safety
Guest blogger Rangarirai Machemedze and David Satterthwaite report on the findings of their research on the occupational health and climate change risks facing informal residents and workers in Zimbabwe
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Shared vulnerabilities? Connecting climate and health in cities: Make Change Happen podcast episode 7
IIED's latest podcast episode explores how cross-sector learning and collaboration may be one key to creating more resilient and equitable cities
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Cartel or chemist?
Could tapping into the informal services in Nairobi’s Mukuru slum be the answer to better health, schools and water provision?
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Coronavirus threat looms large for low-income cities
Weak infrastructure would leave urban settlements in low-income countries highly vulnerable, should the rapid spread of COVID-19 continue
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Invisiblising cities: the obsession with national statistics and international comparisons
David Satterthwaite discusses the vast gaps in city data, and explains why planning, governing and servicing cities calls for data that is broken down into city and sub-city level
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Towards more inclusive urban health systems for refugee wellbeing
The British Academy’s Cities and Infrastructure programme funded IIED to work with partners in Kampala, Uganda and Nairobi, Kenya to undertake research on access to healthcare and other basic services for urban refugees
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Unsmart, unsafe cities for informal workers: effective policy change will need better data
How can urban health policy be effective when the data on residents’ and workers’ leading causes of premature death, illness and injury is inadequate? A new project with partners in India seeks to fill the data gaps and support informal workers’ well-being
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Addressing risks facing informal workers
IIED and partners are assessing the occupational, environmental and public health risks faced by workers in the informal economy. This project will also explore responses to these risks with workers in India and Zimbabwe, while also helping to build their resilience to climate change
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Bloomberg and public health: did he get it right?
While welcoming the support from Michael Bloomberg for a new city-focused global public health initiative, David Satterthwaite and Sarah Colenbrander raise concerns about what is not included
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Urban risks: where are the top five biggest blind spots?
Whose lives are most at risk in urban areas of the global South – for instance from preventable diseases and disasters? And what are the most serious risks they face?
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Ebola – what must we learn?
The Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) is launching an unprecedented appeal in response to the Ebola crisis, but what lessons must we learn if we are to effectively and equitably tackle future shocks of this scale?
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Climate change and urban health
As well as increasing loss of life and injury from extreme events, climate change will exacerbate health risks from diseases that are among the main causes of premature death in informal settlements
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Work and shelter – two struggles, one reality
Urban development programmes have tended to treat livelihoods and shelter as separate problems to solve, when in fact they are closely linked. Grassroots organisations are increasingly seeking ways to tackle these challenges together.
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PLA 23: Participatory Approaches to HIV/AIDS Programmes
This issue of Participatory Learning and Action features articles which describe experiences and issues relating to participatory approaches to HIV and AIDS programmes.
