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Human Touch to Detect Hypothermia in Neonates in Indian Slum Dwellings
Agarwal, Siddharth - 2016
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Cut Off From Caregivers : The Children of Incarcerated Parents in Louisiana
Kirkland, Auriel; Jones, Victor M.; Blackburn, Cheyenne; … - 2021
An estimated 94,000 children in Louisiana have a parent who is behind bars, with devastating effects on children and … families. The entire family serves this sentence. Parental incarceration is a growing epidemic. Nationally, one in 28 children … experiences parental incarceration today, compared to one in 125 children in 1985. Black children are particularly affected by …
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Policies for inclusive urbanisation in China
Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Wang, Xiao; Chalaux, Thomas - 2013
Urbanisation in China has long been held back by various restrictions on land and internal migration but has taken off since the 1990s, as these impediments started to be gradually relaxed. People have moved in large numbers to richer cities, where productivity is higher and has increased...
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Addiction and Urban Poor Households : Cases from Varanasi City in India
Keshav, Arun - 2015
affects the meager resources of households and impacts dependent women and children. These Cases have been formulated on basis … respondents comprising mainly of urban poor, selected from three major slums and other poverty pockets of Varanasi city in India … and children of households and makes them further vulnerable to multiple crises. This paper urges that the addicts and …
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The Invisible Poor
Agarwal, Siddharth - 2016
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Benefits trickling away : the health impact of extending access to piped water and sanitation in urban Yemen
Klasen, Stephan; Lechtenfeld, Tobias; Meier, Kristina; … - 2012
This article investigates the impact of piped water supply and sanitation on health outcomes in urban Yemen using a combination of quasi-experimental methods and results from microbiological water tests. Variations in project roll-out allow separate identification of water and sanitation...
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The Impact of Oil and Gas Extraction on Infant Health
Hill, Elaine - 2021
The benefits and costs of resource extraction are currently being hotly debated in the case of shale gas development (commonly known as "fracking"). Colorado provides a unique research environment given its long history of conventional oil and gas extraction and, most recently, shale gas...
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Shale Gas Development and Infant Health : Evidence from Pennsylvania
Hill, Elaine - 2021
This research exploits the introduction of shale gas wells in Pennsylvania in response to growing controversy around the drilling method of hydraulic fracturing. Using detailed location data on maternal addresses and GIS coordinates of gas wells, this study examines singleton births to mothers...
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The effect of oil spills on infant mortality : evidence from Nigeria
Brüderle, Mirjam Anna; Hodler, Roland - 2017
spills on surviving children. …
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Residential noise exposure and health : evidence from aviation noise and birth outcomes
Argys, Laura M.; Averett, Susan; Yang, Muzhe - 2019
Exploiting recent concentration of flight patterns under a new Federal Aviation Administration policy (called NextGen), we examine the impact of exposure to excessive noise levels on birth outcomes. Using birth records that include mothers’ home addresses to measure airport proximity, we find...
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