COVID-19 and informal settlements – implications for water, sanitation and health in India and Indonesia

Informal settlements are home to over 1 billion people worldwide and are characterised by high population densities and poor environmental conditions. The authors identify the impact of COVID-19 on existing water and sanitation practices and potential pathways for the transmission of COVID-19 in inf...

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Autores principales: Parikh, Priti, Karim, Yasmin Bou, Paulose, Jacob, Factor-Litvak, Pam, Nix, Emily, Aisyah, Dewi Nur, Chaturvedi, Hemant, Manikam, Logan, Lakhanpaul, Monica
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: UCL Press 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10208312/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37229289
http://dx.doi.org/10.14324/111.444/ucloe.000011
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author Parikh, Priti
Karim, Yasmin Bou
Paulose, Jacob
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Nix, Emily
Aisyah, Dewi Nur
Chaturvedi, Hemant
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description Informal settlements are home to over 1 billion people worldwide and are characterised by high population densities and poor environmental conditions. The authors identify the impact of COVID-19 on existing water and sanitation practices and potential pathways for the transmission of COVID-19 in informal settlements in India and Indonesia. In the short term, there is an urgent need for mobile and contactless hand washing, washing/bathing facilities and toilets. In the long term, COVID-19 provides an opportunity to invest in centralised water and sanitation networked solutions appropriate for high-density settings to integrate those settlements into cities and improve environmental conditions and health in these cities.
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spelling pubmed-102083122023-05-24 COVID-19 and informal settlements – implications for water, sanitation and health in India and Indonesia Parikh, Priti Karim, Yasmin Bou Paulose, Jacob Factor-Litvak, Pam Nix, Emily Aisyah, Dewi Nur Chaturvedi, Hemant Manikam, Logan Lakhanpaul, Monica UCL Open Environ Open Commentary Informal settlements are home to over 1 billion people worldwide and are characterised by high population densities and poor environmental conditions. The authors identify the impact of COVID-19 on existing water and sanitation practices and potential pathways for the transmission of COVID-19 in informal settlements in India and Indonesia. In the short term, there is an urgent need for mobile and contactless hand washing, washing/bathing facilities and toilets. In the long term, COVID-19 provides an opportunity to invest in centralised water and sanitation networked solutions appropriate for high-density settings to integrate those settlements into cities and improve environmental conditions and health in these cities. UCL Press 2020-09-07 /pmc/articles/PMC10208312/ /pubmed/37229289 http://dx.doi.org/10.14324/111.444/ucloe.000011 Text en © 2020 The Authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY) 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Manikam, Logan
Lakhanpaul, Monica
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