Urban communities, poor

Guerrant DI, Moore SR, Lima AA, Patrick PD, Schorling JB, Guerrant RL Association of early childhood diarrhea and cryptosporidiosis with impaired physical fitness and cognitive function four to seven years later in a poor urban community in northeast Brazil. Am J Trap Med Hyg 1999 61 707-713. 

Local food production is critical in preventing hunger and promoting rural development in areas where the poor do not have the capacity to purchase food from elsewhere. Wild foods are likewise important in many developing countries, often bridging the hunger gap created by droughts, civil unrest, and other stresses. In wealthier urban communities, human dependence on ecosystems for food is less apparent, but no less fundamental. 

England Urban children with recent PbB testing (78) Urban community exposures, mean PbB 9.5pg/dl (4.9-17.7 pg/dl). Tested in a six-part battery of automated tests Children with PbB > 11 pg/dl performed more poorly in the Paired Associate Learning and the Speed of Information tests Yule et al. (1989)... 

Foodborne infections are especially prevalent in poor urban communities with inadequate facilities for storing foods and unsanitary water supplies and lavatories. Under such circumstances, food-related infections are common and contribute to a high sickness and death rate, especially in children. 

Required by CAA—200-300 sites measureing community pollutants quality of data spotty, poor hydrocarbon measurements particulates measured every 6th or 12th day mostly urban-suburban. Reported in SAROAD System. 

Description The program was initiated in response to the 1998-2001 economic downturn, which resulted in an increase in poverty and unemployment. The objective is to provide temporary employment at low wages for unskilled workers negatively affected by the crisis In poor urban areas. The program aims to improve social and economic urban Infrastructure through highly labor-intensive projects and to promote participation by communities In local development. 

Gorman-Smith, D., Tolan, P. H., Henry, D. B. (1999). The relations of community and family to risk among urban-poor adolescents. In P. Cohen C. Slomkowski (Eds.), Historical and geographical influences on psychopathology (pp. 349-367). Mahway, NJ Erlbaum. 

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