Urbanization and Wellbeing [Theme]
By 2020, the majority of sub-Saharan Africans will live in cities. Rapid urbanization in the region amid declining or stagnant economies coupled with poor governance has forced many poor urban residents to live in deplorable conditions in slum settlements as they are unable to find reliable means of livelihood. Since 1999, APHRC efforts have helped to identify strategies that can address deteriorating living conditions of these poor urban populations. The Center has established Nairobi Urban Health and Demographic Surveillance System (NUHDSS), a longitudinal framework that involves interviews among 60,000 people living in Nairobi`s slums.
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This theme investigates a range of questions including:
- How high rates of urbanization and growing urban poverty are likely to affect demographic indicators and development;
- The extent to which poverty and ill-health are linked to the length of residence in slum areas
- Whether people move to slum settlements in response to life crises that have already impaired their health, or their health deteriorates as a result of living in slums;
- The extent to which slum dwellers move in and out of poverty, and how such transitions affect their health; and
- Whether the linkages between poverty, migration and health status vary at different stages of the lifecycle from childhood through old age.
Tags: sub-Saharan; Urban Health;
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