A health service package for residents of informal settlements: A developing country

Poortaheri, Naeimeh; Alimohammadzadeh, Khalil; Hosseini, Seyed Mojtaba; Maher, Ali; Bahadori, Mohammadkarim

doi:10.1080/20479700.2022.2105886

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“…According to their study, per-capita expenditure on health from the government of Bangladesh has been low (27%), with out-of-pocket expenses remaining the major source (74%) of health-care financing. Furthermore, in Iran, Poortaheri et al (2022) conducted a study on health-care system and found five health-care packages relevant for sustainable informal settlements. This includes community empowerment, social and mental support, environmental health, economic support and health prevention and improvement.…”

Section: Health-care Systems and Covid-19 In Informal Settlementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Health care support systems for informal settlement rental housing during the COVID-19 season: landlord’s perspective

Agbenyo,

Appau,

Yorgri

2023

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Purpose This paper aims to examine landlords’ health support systems to tenants to control COVID-19 in selected informal settlement rental housing (ISRH) in Ghana, dwelling on landlords’ views. Design/methodology/approach The paper used the concurrent imbedded mixed-methods approach and grounded the findings in the socio-ecological theory. The authors collected both qualitative and quantitative data from 242 landlords in 13 informal settlements across Ghana using quotas. The authors undertook semi-structured face-to-face and telephone interviews. The authors conducted content and thematic qualitative data analysis and used simple descriptive statistical data analysis. Findings The paper discovered that tenants had limited knowledge on the transmission of the pandemic, forcing landlords to regulate their building services usage, ventilation and thermal control, entertainment, common areas and rent advancement for tenants to control the pandemic. Also, tenants found it difficult to comply with the rules on ventilation for fear of criminal attacks, while high social connection and interaction among renters and inadequate enforcement caused the non-adherence by renters to social gathering. Again, landlords had difficulty in contract-tracing visitors suspected to be infected with the virus. Originality/value The use of concurrent and imbedded mixed methods to investigate landlords’ viewpoints on their support in health needs of their tenants to regulate COVID-19. The prescriptions from the study provide practical applications to formulate a mix of housing and health policies to formalize the support of landlords to their tenants in ISRH in Ghana.

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Section: Health-care Systems and Covid-19 In Informal Settlementsmentioning

confidence: 99%