This Volume Titled Facets Of Urban Society In India: Processes, Problems And Development Meets A Long Standing Demand To Have A Comprehensive, Multi-Disciplinary Treatment Of Urban Processes, Problems And Development. The Major Focus Is On The Divergent Urban Problems Their Nature, Gravity, Intensity And Dimensions. The Other Two Are Also Given Their Due Importance. Gender Problems In Urban Society Are Discussed In A Separate Section. Other Urban Problems Like Environmental Pollution, Transport And Traffic Problems, Health Problems, Different Problems In Slums, Urban Crime, Suicide, Rights Violation, Street Children And Child Workers Are All Given Fair Treatment. All The Articles Are Written By Eminent Academics From Different Disciplines Like Sociology, Anthropology, Social Work, Economics, Psychology, Political Science, Women S Studies, Population Studies, Education And Adult Education, And Human Rights. The Authors Arrive At Significant Observations And Inferences Which Are Quite Pertinent To The Present-Day Urban India. The Book Will Be Valuable Not Only To The Academics From The Above Disciplines But Also To Geographers, Urban And Administrators.

Urban slum dwellers—especially in emerging-economy countries—are often poor, live in squalor, and suffer unnecessarily from disease, disability, premature death, and reduced life expectancy. Yet living in a city can and should be healthy. Slum Health exposes how and why slums can be unhealthy; reveals that not all slums are equal in terms of the hazards and health issues faced by residents; and suggests how slum dwellers, scientists, and social movements can come together to make slum life safer, more just, and healthier. Editors Jason Corburn and Lee Riley argue that valuing both new biologic and “street” science—professional and lay knowledge—is crucial for improving the well-being of the millions of urban poor living in slums.

Reproductive tract infections (RTis) have become a silent epidemic that is devastating women's lives. Each year, thousands of women die needlessly from the consequences of these infections, including cervical cancer, ectopic pregnancy, acute and chronic infections of the uterus and the fallopian tubes, and puerperal infections. For many women, this happens because they receive medical attention too late, if at all. The terrible irony of this tragedy is that early diagnosis of and treatment for many RTis do not require high-technology health care. For the hundreds of millions of women with chronic RTis acquired from their sexual partners, life can become a living hell. Infection is a major cause of infertility, and it leads to scorn and rejection in many countries. These women may experience constant pain, have festering lesions of the genital tract, be at enhanced risk of second ary diseases, and endure social ostracism. The problems associated with RT!s have grown even greater in the past decade with the emergence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and AIDS. Preexisting sexually transmitted disease, particularly when associated with genital tract ulcers, raises women's vulnerability to the transmission of HIV 3-5 fold.

Monthly, with annual cumulations. Comprehensive, current index to periodical medical literature intended for use of practitioners, investigators, and other workers in community medicine who are concerned with the etiology, prevention, and control of disease. Citations are derived from MEDLARS tapes for Index medicus of corresponding date. Arrangement by 2 sections, i.e., Selected subject headings, and Diseases, organisms, vaccines. No author index.

The Challenge of Slums presents the first global assessment of slums, emphasizing their problems and prospects. Using a newly formulated operational definition of slums, it presents estimates of the number of urban slum dwellers and examines the factors at all level, from local to global, that underlie the formation of slums as well as their social, spatial and economic characteristics and dynamics. It goes on to evaluate the principal policy responses to the slum challenge of the last few decades. From this assessment, the immensity of the challenges that slums pose is clear. Almost 1 billion people live in slums, the majority in the developing world where over 40 per cent of the urban population are slum dwellers. The number is growing and will continue to increase unless there is serious and concerted action by municipal authorities, governments, civil society and the international community. This report points the way forward and identifies the most promising approaches to achieving the United Nations Millennium Declaration targets for improving the lives of slum dwellers by scaling up participatory slum upgrading and poverty reduction programmes. The Global Report on Human Settlements is the most authoritative and up-to-date assessment of conditions and trends in the world's cities. Written in clear language and supported by informative graphics, case studies and extensive statistical data, it will be an essential tool and reference for researchers, academics, planners, public authorities and civil society organizations around the world.

Slum Is A Pervasive Phenomenon Throughout The Developing Countries Of The World. Slum Cannot Be Separated From The Social System In The Urban Life. Slum Is The Product Of Industrial Civilisation, Capitalist Mode Of Production, Growing Urbanisation, Modern Mechanism Of Urban Settlement, Increasing Rural- Urban Migration.From This Backdrop The Present Book Is Based On Exploratory Views And Focused On Such A Crucial Subject Of Human Settlement. Salient Features Of The Problems Of Adolescent Girls In Slum Area Have Been Analyzed In The Book With A View To Helping The Policy Makers In Formulating Appropriate Strategies And Approaches Whose Efficiency Would Be Judged In The Removal Of Gender Disparities. Substantially Based On Empirical Research Findings, The Present Book Categorically Analyses The Problems And Hardships Of Adolescent Girls In Slum And Positive And Viable Recommendations Are Made For Improvement Of The Situation.