Healthier housing for developing countries
2003
Aromar Revi(Taru Leading Edge, New Delhi (India)) | Shrikant Joshi(Taru Leading Edge, New Delhi (India)) | Sumeet Saksena(East West Center, Hono-lulu (USA)) | Hiremagalur N.B. Gopalan(United Nations Environment Programme, Nairobi (Kenya))
This chapter reviews the key policy and research trends that have helped define the relationship between housing and health in the relationship between housing and health in the developing countries. It has identified a significant gap between problem articulation in the policy domain, which claims significant differential vulnerability of women and children, and the medical and scientific literature, which few data are available on the actual exposure levels of women and children to domestic health risks in developing countries. Further, only some health risks within major disease categories are fairly well defined. The current gap in the medical and scientific literature, therefore, needs to be filled with focused research. A review of the current analytical framework in this area concluded that there was need for an alternative formulation and a new research agenda focusing on the problems and priorities of developing countries. A series of process, environmental and technical interventions was identified, apart from the need for gender sensitivity and child-centredness in both research and the implementation of pilot pgrogrammes.
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