Progress in Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health in Cities in Sub-Saharan Africa: Are Wide Inequities Holding Back Cities?

Affiliations

¹ African Population and Health Research Center, West Africa Regional Office, Dakar, Senegal. cfaye@aphrc.org.
² African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya.
³ University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.

Editorial

Cheikh Mbacké Faye et al. J Urban Health. 2024 Nov.

. 2024 Nov;101(Suppl 1):1-4.

doi: 10.1007/s11524-024-00936-x.

¹ African Population and Health Research Center, West Africa Regional Office, Dakar, Senegal. cfaye@aphrc.org.
² African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya.
³ University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.

No abstract available

References

1. Lilford RJ, Oyebode O, Satterthwaite D, Melendez-Torres G, Chen Y-F, Mberu B, et al. Improving the health and welfare of people who live in slums. The Lancet. 2017;389(10068):559–70. - DOI - PubMed
1. Ezeh A, Oyebode O, Satterthwaite D, Chen Y-F, Ndugwa R, Sartori J, et al. The history, geography, and sociology of slums and the health problems of people who live in slums. The Lancet. 2017;389(10068):547–58. - DOI - PubMed
1. Tusting LS, Bisanzio D, Alabaster G, Cameron E, Cibulskis R, Davies M, et al. Mapping changes in housing in sub-Saharan Africa from 2000 to 2015. Nature. 2019;568(7752):391–4. - DOI - PMC - PubMed
1. United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. World urbanization prospects: The 2018 revision (Online Edition). United Nations; 2018. https://population.un.org/wup/
1. Mberu BU, Haregu TN, Kyobutungi C, Ezeh AC. Health and health-related indicators in slum, rural, and urban communities: a comparative analysis. Glob Health Action. 2016;9(1):33163. - DOI - PMC - PubMed