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The Saint Louis University Mental Status (SLUMS) Exam is a brief screening assessment used to detect cognitive impairment. [1] It was developed in 2006 at the Saint Louis University School of Medicine Division of Geriatric Medicine, in affiliation with a Veterans' Affairs medical center. [2] The test was initially developed using a veteran ...
A slum is a highly populated urban residential area consisting of densely packed housing units of weak build quality and often associated with poverty. The infrastructure in slums is often deteriorated or incomplete, and they are primarily inhabited by impoverished people. [1] Although slums are usually located in urban areas, in some countries ...
This is a list of slums. A slum as defined by the United Nations agency UN-Habitat , is a run-down area of a city characterized by substandard housing, squalor, and lacking in tenure security. According to the United Nations, the percentage of urban dwellers living in slums decreased from 47 percent to 37 percent in the developing world between ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; Help This is a ... Slums in the Americas (3 C) Slums in Asia (6 C, 8 P) E.
Slum clearance, slum eviction or slum removal is an urban renewal strategy used to transform low-income settlements with poor reputation into another type of development or housing. This has long been a strategy for redeveloping urban communities; for example, slum clearance plans were required in the United Kingdom in the Housing Act 1930 ...
The Slum Rehabilitation Act 1995 was passed by the government of the Indian state Maharashtra to protect the rights of swamp dwellers and promote the development of swamp areas. The Act protected from eviction , anyone who could produce a document proving they lived in the city of Mumbai before January 1995, regardless if they lived on the ...
Slum networking is a holistic approach to improving urban infrastructure, developed by Himanshu Parikh [1] [2] It addresses a range of facilities needed by slum dwellers: [3] roads and footpaths. storm drainage. sanitation and sewerage. water supply. earthworks and soft landscaping. street lighting. solid waste management.
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