The poor die young: housing and health in Third World cities
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| adam_text | Contents
Preface xiii
Foreword — Robert Novick xv
Introduction - Sandy Cairncross, Jorge E. Hardoy and David
Satterthwaite xviv
The scale of the problem
The focus of the book
1 The Urban Context - Sandy Cairncross, Jorge E. Hardoy
and David Satterthwaite 1
Urbanization without health
Justifying a concentration on urban problems
The complexity of housing problems
Why have the health risks of housing been ignored?
2 Community Action to Address Housing and Health Problems:
the case of San Martin in Buenos Aires, Argentina - Beatrix
Cuenya, Hector Almada, Diego Artnus, Julia Castells, Maria di
Loreto and Susana Penalva 25
____ Introduction
^ Background to the invasion
The land invasion
The case of San Martin
The inhabitants of San Martin
Basic services and infrastructure in San Martin
Shelter
Health
Some conclusions
3 Housing and Health in Olaleye-Iponri, a Low-income
Settlement in Lagos, Nigeria - Tade Akin Aina 56
Introduction
Housing and health conditions and policies in Nigeria
Olaleye-Iponri
Socio-economic characteristics
Housing, land and land tenure
Services and facilities
Health problems
How residents cope with their health problems
4 Housing and Health in Three Squatter Settlements in
Allahabad, India - H. N. Misra 89
Introduction - the development of Allahabad
The development of Chheetpur
The development of Kydganj
The development of Lowther Road
Health and nutrition
Some tentative conclusions
5 Water Supply and the Urban Poor - Sandy Cairncross 109
The undue emphasis on water quality
The importance of water quantity
Distance and demand
Cost
Problems of the formal sector
Privatization
Metering
Water demand management
Other solutions
Support to vendors
6 Low Cost Sanitation - Gehan Sinnatamby 127
Who needs sanitation?
Benefits of improved sanitation
Types of excreta disposal system
Ventilated improved pit (VIP) latrines
Pour-flush latrines
Septic tanks
Small-bore sewers
Shallow sewers
Factors affecting system choice
7 Surface Water Drainage in Urban Areas - Sandy
Cairncross andE.A.R. Ouano 158
The problem
Health consequences
Urban planning implications
The need for collaboration
Developing a drainage programme
8 The Collection and Management of Household Garbage -
Stenio de Coura Cuentro and Dji Malla Gadji 169
Introduction
The development of low-cost garbage collection and disposal
in Recife, Northeast Brazil
Olinda- the starting point
The municipality of Paulista
The municipality of Recife
Conclusions
The case of Ambassatna Nadif: lessons from an experimental
waste collection project in N Djamena
Lessons to be learnt from the project
The role of women
Identifying the needs
The concession: the cornerstone of the project
9 The Role of House Design in Limiting Vector-Borne Disease -
C.J. Schofield,R- Briceno-Leon, N. Kolstrup, D.J.T. Webb
and G.B. White 189
Introduction
House design
The domestic vector problem
Four aspects of household pest and vector control
Location of the house
Restricting access of vectors
Restriction of hiding places
Low-cost design and construction
Constraints to improved low-cost housing
10 Life Saving Services - Greg Goldstein 213
Introduction
The high vulnerability of low-income groups
Access to services
Reduction in vulnerability
Community provision of emergency services
The organization of an urban emergency service
An emergency medical service
11 The Future City -Jorge E. Hardoy and David
Satterthwaite 228
The context for the future city
The main actors in building and financing the future city
The future city without changed policies
An alternative urban future
Mobilizing resources for the future city
12 New Partnerships for Healthy Cities - Sandy Cairncross,
Jorge E. Hardoy and David Satterthwaite 245
Introduction
New partnerships between government and community
organizations
Some pre-conditions for the new approach
The role of local government
The private sector
The non-commercial private sector
Notes and References 266
Suggested Further Reading 287
Index 291
MAPS
2.1 The West Quilmes settlements formed by the invasion 30
3.1 Olaleye-Iponri (showing the conditions of buildings
in Olaleye) 64
4.1 Allahabad City showing population density in 1981 91
4.2 Site plans of Kydganj, with details of building materials
used for housing 99
4.3 Site plan of Lowther Road with details of building materials
used for housing 102
FIGURES
1.1 Examples of the many factors which influence a person s
health 20
5.1 Daily reporting of typhoid cases in Kosti, Sudan 113
5.2 Schematic representation of the relationship between time
taken to collect a bucket of water and the quantity used 113
5.3 Relationship between household income and water
consumption, in squatter areas of Khartoum 125
6.1 Ventilated improved pit-latrine 133
6.2 Pour-flush latrine 137
6.3 Variation in per household septic tank costs with the number
of households served in Karachi, Pakistan 144
6.4 Typical shallow-block sewer and house connection layout for
unplanned and planned housing 149
6.5 Variation in costs of conventional and shallow sewerage and
on-site sanitation with population density in Natal,
northeast Brazil 153
7.1 Health consequences of poor drainage 160
7.2 Possible sequence of events in solving local drainage
problems 168
9.1 Factors which predispose the domestic and peri-domestic
environment to colonization by arthropods of medical
importance 195
TABLES
1.1 The world s most prevalent diseases xxi
1.2 The world s most common causes of death from disease xxiv
2.1 Population growth in Buenos Aires 25
2.2 Job categories for employed household heads and partners 42
2.3 Proportion of households with unmet basic needs 43
2.4 Water supply 49
2.5 The health service to which people turned first 50
3.1 Major notifiable diseases in Nigeria, 1968, 1973 and 1977 61
3.2 Sources of employment 69
3.3 Main categories of occupation 69
3.4 Respondents identification of the most common illness in
their household 82
3.5 Respondents identification of illnesses suffered by
themselves and their households in the previous six months 83
4.1 The growth in Allahabad s population 90
4.2 Employment in the three squatter settlements 96
4.3 Land and house tenure 97
4.4 Materials used for housing units 104
4.5 Causes of infant and child death 106
6.1 Sanitation coverage by region in 1985 127
6.2 Estimates of the percentage of city populations in informal
settlements in 1980 128
6.3 Percentage urban sanitation coverage 132
6.4 Typical range of capital costs per household of alternative
sanitation systems (1990 prices) 156
8.1 Prevalence of parasites among the tested population in
Triangulo de Peixinhos, 1983 174
8.2 Production of the Triangulo de Peixinhos composting
plan, 1984-5 176
9.1 Summary of domestic and peri-domestic arthropods of
medical importance 190
9.2 Factors increasing or decreasing the likelihood of
mosquitoes biting and resting inside houses 200
12.1 Government-community partnerships in addressing housing
and health problems in urban residential areas 266
BOXES
1.1 Inadequacies in water supply, sanitation and
garbage collection 5
1.2 Comparisons of health problems between rich areas and
poor areas within cities 15
2.1 The Castillo family 32
2.2 The Garay family 44
2.3 The Frias family 47
2.4 Findings from the nutrition survey 53
2.5 Findings from physical examinations and
laboratory tests 54
3.1 Michael and Josephine s family 67
3.2 Akinwande and Elizabeth s family 71
3.3 Pa Ogun and Damola s family 74
3.4 Evie s family 77
3.5 Adebayo and Moni s family 85
5.1 Endemic versus epidemic 111
5.2 The cost of conventional water supplies 121
5.3 What is water worth? 125
6.1 Health effects of improved sanitation 130
6.2 Reasons for constructing latrines in Nepal 131
6.3 Pit latrine programmes in Mozambique, Ghana and Malawi 135
6.4 Pour flush latrine programmes in India, Indonesia, Pakistan
Nepal, Brazil and Colombia 138
6.5 Small bore sewers in Orangi, Karachi 145
6.6 Conventional sewer design too conservative 147
6.7 Shallow sewer systems in Brazil, Pakistan and Sri Lanka 150
6.8 Baldia squatter settlement revisited 154
10.1 Local diagnosis of hazards and vulnerability 214
10.2 Fire 216
10.3 Building collapse 217
10.4 Landslides 217
10.5 Floods 218
10.6 Industrial disasters 219
10.7 Types of emergency by initiating event and the
role of paramedics 221
10.8 The four components of an effective emergency service 224
11.1 Different options for a government spending $20 million on
improving housing and living conditions 238
12.1 The urban community development programme in Rocinha,
Rio de Janeiro 249
12.2 Federations of community organizations - the example of
CONAMUP (Mexico) 252
12.3 Health surveys in squatter settlements in Amman, Jordan 254
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