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Maxwell Owusu, Ryan Engstrom, Dana Thomson, Monika Kuffer and Michael L. Mann
Reliable data on slums or deprived living conditions remain scarce in many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Global high-resolution maps of deprived areas are fundamental for both research- and evidence-based policies. Existing mapping methods ar...
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Olivia Reddy, Mostaquimur Rahman, Anisha Nijhawan, Maria Pregnolato and Guy Howard
On-site sanitation systems (OSS), such as pit latrines, are an important source of methane (CH4), with emissions increasing when they are wet, and this occurs when anaerobic conditions dominate. This paper presents the development of a model, which uses ...
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Giovanni Vinti and Mentore Vaccari
Solid waste management (SWM) in rural areas of many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) represents a critical and underrated topic. However, almost half of the world?s population still lives in rural areas and an adequate SWM is crucial in reducing ...
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Francisco Alonso, Mireia Faus, Maria T. Tormo and Sergio A. Useche
Apart from constituting a topic of high relevance for transport planners and policymakers, support technologies for traffic have the potential to bring significant benefits to mobility. In addition, there are groups of ?high potential? users, such as you...
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Maila D. H. Rahiem, Steven Eric Krauss and Robin Ersing
Despite several recent studies reporting on young people?s well-being during COVID-19, few large-scale qualitative studies have been carried out that capture the experiences of young people from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) undergoing extende...
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Meelan Thondoo, Daniel H. De Vries, David Rojas-Rueda, Yashila D. Ramkalam, Ersilia Verlinghieri, Joyeeta Gupta and Mark J. Nieuwenhuijsen
Background: Conducting health impact assessments (HIAs) is a growing practice in various organizations and countries, yet scholarly interest in HIAs has primarily focused on the synergies between exposure and health outcomes. This limits our understandin...
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Satej Soman, Anni Beukes, Cooper Nederhood, Nicholas Marchio and Luís M. A. Bettencourt
The recent growth of high-resolution spatial data, especially in developing urban environments, is enabling new approaches to civic activism, urban planning and the provision of services necessary for sustainable development. A special area of great pote...
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Aliyu Abubakar
Burn is a devastating injury affecting over eleven million people worldwide and more than 265,000 affected individuals lost their lives every year. Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) have surging cases of more than 90% of the total global incidence...
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Patricia Lustosa Brito, Monika Kuffer, Mila Koeva, Julio Cesar Pedrassoli, Jiong Wang, Federico Costa and Anderson Dias de Freitas
The COVID-19 health emergency is impacting all of our lives, but the living conditions and urban morphologies found in poor communities make inhabitants more vulnerable to the COVID-19 outbreak as compared to the formal city, where inhabitants have the r...
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Bahati Prince Ngongo, Phares Ochola, Joyce Ndegwa, Paul Katuse
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Sub-Saharan Africa lags other regions in the adoption of both Patient-Centered (PC) and Facility Centered (FC) mobile health (m-health) applications. Transformational Leadership Style (TLS) of Hospital Management Boards (HMBs) is catalytic for the adopti...
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