Urban slum residents often have worse health outcomes compared with other urbanites and even their rural counterparts. This suggests that slum residents do not always benefit from the "urban advantage" of enjoying better access to health-promoting services. Limited access to water and sanitation...

Urban slum residents often have worse health outcomes compared with other urbanites and even their rural counterparts. This suggests that slum residents do not always benefit from the "urban advantage" of enjoying better access to health-promoting services. Limited access to water and sanitation...

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and Data Notes -- Foreword -- Overview -- 1 Services can work for poor people but too often they fail -- 2 Governments should make services work -- 3 The framework for service provision -- 4 Clients and providers -- 5 Citizens and politicians...