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COVID-19 and Slums: A Pandemic Highlights Gaps in Knowledge About Urban Poverty
According to the United Nations, about 1 billion persons live in so-called slums. Numerous studies have shown that this population is particularly vulnerable to infectious diseases. The current COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, emphatically underlines this problem. The o...
Autores principales: | Friesen, John, Pelz, Peter F |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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JMIR Publications
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7486000/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32877347 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/19578 |
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