Child stunting reduction is the first of 6 goals in the Global Nutrition Targets for 2025 and a
key indicator in the second Sustainable Development Goal of Zero Hunger. The prevalence …

This paper reviews the literature on health in the informal settlements (and “slums”) that now
house a substantial proportion of the urban population in Africa, Asia and Latin America …

One in seven of the world's population live in poverty in urban areas, and the vast majority of
these live in the Global South–mostly in overcrowded informal settlements with inadequate …

Gastrointestinal waterborne diseases, continue to stand out among the most lethal diseases
in developing countries, because of consuming contaminated water taken from unsafe …

Diarrhoea is an important health issue in low-and middle-income countries, including
Indonesia. We applied a multilevel regression analysis on the Indonesian Demographic and …

For the first time in history, more than half of the world's population lives in urban areas. This
has profound implications for global trends in poverty, food security and nutrition and for …

Objective To explore linkages between water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and maternal
and perinatal health via a conceptual approach and a scoping review. Methods We …

Background The intense interactions between people, animals and environmental systems
in urban informal settlements compromise human and environmental health. Inadequate …

This article systematically addresses mother's education as a fundamental determinant of
child mortality in developing countries. The main proposition is that setting the right policy …

Indonesia still faces several challenges in the areas of water, sanitation, and hygiene
(WASH). Diarrhea remains a major killer of children and it is important to understand the …