Slum upgrading strategies involving physical environment and infrastructure interventions and their effects on health and socio-economic outcomes

Turley, Ruth; Saith, Ruhi; Bhan, Nandita; Rehfuess, Eva; Carter, Ben

doi:10.1002/14651858.cd010067.pub2

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“…The present review is designed to provide this information and complement previous reviews focusing on specific interventions such as infrastructural interventions or housing improvement in slums and their impact on health (Thomson et al 2013, Turley et al 2013.…”

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Interventions to tackle malnutrition and its risk factors in children living in slums: a scoping review

Goudet

Griffiths

Bogin

et al. 2016

Annals of Human Biology

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(200 words)Context: Children living in slums are at high risk of being malnourished. There are no published reviews on existing interventions promoting better nutrition for children living in slums and the risks factors for children's malnutrition.Improved understanding of the risks factors for malnutrition in slums communities and the impact of interventions on children's health can provide guidance to practitioners and decision-makers. The present review is designed to provide this information. Methods:The search included 30 electronic bibliographic databases, and relevant eligible studies published up to December 2013. Results:The search located 1,512 citations. Full text relevance screening was conducted on 226 studies and on abstracts for 16 studies. The final 58 unique studies included 22 on interventions and 38 on risk. All of the interventions were nutrition-specific with nutritional intervention being the most dominant type. Seventy three percent of the interventions were assessed effective. Conclusion:The findings stressed the gaps in knowledge in terms of quality assessment and programmatic recommendations to identify children who are the most at risk of malnutrition to appropriately target interventions. Finally, the review helped to inform a systematic review (Cochrane Systematic review protocol 2015) that will examine the impact of interventions on outcome measures.3 | P a g e

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Interventions to tackle malnutrition and its risk factors in children living in slums: a scoping review

Goudet

Griffiths

Bogin

et al. 2016

Annals of Human Biology

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“…These reviews vary in terms of their complexity (see Table 2). From 24 reviews in this group, 16 only included randomized trials (10 of these restricted the study design to the RCTs in the inclusion criteria), whereas the rest contained a mixture of randomized, quasi-randomized, and/or nonrandomized studies, such as controlled before-after designs [47,50,51], interrupted time series analysis [50], and cross-sectional studies with controls and matched historical controls [8,48]. In this group, three reviews opted out entirely from quantitative synthesis of the effect estimates [42,50,51], whereas six reviews partially meta-analyzed data for several outcomes [35,42e44,47e49].…”

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“…None of the reviews that did not adopt GRADE gave a reason for that decision. In comparison with GRADEendorsed reviews, a higher proportion of those not endorsing GRADE in both complex and simple intervention review groups reported either the narrative synthesis of the data [42,50,51,61,62] or the quantitative synthesis applied to only part of the included outcomes [8,35,43,44,47e49,68].…”

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“…These were mainly conducted to accommodate the assessment of nonrandomized studies [8,48,50,51], as recommended by the Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisation of Care Group [70], and to address considerations that are particularly salient for the specific complex interventions being systematically reviewed. By way of illustration, three reviews that focused on cognitive and behavioral therapies [32,36,45] contained additional items of treatment fidelity and of researcher and therapist allegiance to the initial set of RoB items:…”

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“…The integration of subgroup analysis data in decisions on rating the evidence based on inconsistency was not common in the investigated reviews in either of the groups. This could be partially explained by the fact that, in general, an intention of subgroup analysis for the purposes of explaining the sources of heterogeneity was expressed by most reviews; in most cases, it was not conducted [32,35,36,38,47,50,51,53,57,65,66], or conducted for a very limited number of variables [39,41,45,49,55,60,63,64], mainly due to an insufficient number of studies.…”

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Bangladesh, with a population of 167 million, has recently emerged from being classified as a low-income country to a low-middle-income country and has made some progress in poverty reduction. However, in Bangladesh, mortality among children younger than 5 years is 33 per 1000 live births, life expectancy at birth is 72 years, and the most common causes of premature death are neonatal disorders and stroke. 1 The annual per capita income is US $1316, with approximately 15% of the population living in extreme poverty. 1 Dhaka, the capital, has a population of more than 20 million and is one of the most densely populated cities in the world. Dhaka is also considered one of the most environmentally contaminated cities in the world, yet for some of the increasing population of rural poor, it is a highly attractive place to live. For those living in rural areas, available land is decreasing because of overpopulation and climate change, and for some, the ground water is contaminated with arsenic. Given the struggles in their lives, people come to Dhaka by the thousands each week. With limited education, skills, and financial resources, most of these migrants end up living in a slum. Is this a glimpse of things to come in resource-limited countries?

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Slum upgrading strategies involving physical environment and infrastructure interventions and their effects on health and socio-economic outcomes

Cited by 110 publications

References 42 publications

Interventions to tackle malnutrition and its risk factors in children living in slums: a scoping review

Interventions to tackle malnutrition and its risk factors in children living in slums: a scoping review

Outcomes in systematic reviews of complex interventions never reached “high” GRADE ratings when compared with those of simple interventions

Health Concerns in Urban Slums

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