… This study aims to quantify the burden of mortality of the residents in two Nairobi slums,
using a Burden of Disease approach and data generated from a Demographic Surveillance …

… Traditional and socioeconomic factors were analyzed for their association with CVD
mortality over 10 years of baseline assessment in an urban slum of Nairobi, Kenya. …

… mortality rates in the Nairobi urban slums were at par or higher than rates reported from an
urban slum in … health care for acute illnesses is accessible, high proportion of deaths may be …

… slums, which account for about 60% of the residences of the urban population in Kenya. This
study examines trends in NCD mortality from two slum settings in Nairobi. … towards disease …

… This study aims to demonstrate changes in population-level HIV mortality in two high HIV
prevalence slums in Nairobi with respect to the initiation and subsequent scale-up of the …

… the field of health concerns of slum dwellers in Mukuru slums of Nairobi. The study leading
to this paper involved teaching epidemiology of chronic diseases and health promotion as a …

… and cardiovascular disease are linked to approximately 73 % of all adult deaths among the
urban poor in Nairobi slums of Korogocho and Viwandani in the last 10 years. While mortality …

… of infectious diseases, thereby making slum residents more susceptible to diseases such
as diarrhoea, pneumonia, and other respiratory tract infections (Kyobutungi et al. 2008). …

… (slums) was more than double that of Nairobi as a whole. The infant mortality rate (IMR) in
Nairobi slums (… Contours of death: disease, mortality and the environment in early modern. N …

… of slum environments on morbidity and mortality profile in slum environments along Nairobi
River… Poor sanitation leads to the fast spread of diseases in the slum settlements. This raises …