Urbanisation and spatial inequalities in health in Brazil and India
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Manchester
Department Name: Medical and Human Sciences
Abstract
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Organisations
Publications
Aitsi-Selmi A
(2012)
Interaction between education and household wealth on the risk of obesity in women in Egypt.
in PloS one
Bassanesi S
(2011)
O1-1.1 Urbanisation and spatial inequalities in health in Brazil
in Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
Chandola T
(2011)
O1-1.2 Socioeconomic segregation in major Indian cities and mortality
in Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
Chandola T
(2012)
Spatial and social determinants of urban health in low-, middle- and high-income countries.
in Public health
Forde I
(2012)
The impact of cash transfers to poor women in Colombia on BMI and obesity: prospective cohort study.
in International journal of obesity (2005)
Sergio Bassanesi (Author)
(2012)
Spatial analysis in epidemiology
Sita Mikkilineni (Author)
(2011)
Child mortality and its relationship to women's literacy and labour force participation in major Indian cities
| Description | This project was able to measure socioeconomic segregation in major Brazilian and Indian cities as well as examine the association of such segregation with mortality rates. In Brazil, districts within cities where the poor were spatially isolated and clustered into a few neighbourhoods had the highest mortality rates. Moreover, districts where the poor were living next to non-poor (richer) communities had lower mortality rates than districts where the poor more spatially isolated, even after taking into account the socioeconomic profile of districts. In Indian cities, households in areas (wards) of high poverty concentration had higher child death rates, independently of the poverty rate of areas and other socioeconomic factors. |
| Exploitation Route | Our recent publication on the effect of socioeconomic segregation on the health of the urban poor in India could be used by urban policy decision makers and third sector organisations working with the urban poor. There is an ongoing debate in India and elsewhere about the effects of slum clearance policies, with little evidence to date, on the health impacts of such slum clearance. Our research shows how such slum clearance policies could have an adverse impact on their health and could be used as evidence to halt slum clearance policies. |
| Sectors | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Healthcare |
| Description | Societal impact: Professor Bassanesi was invited to contribute to a new Brazilian initiative on city observatories- Observatório da Metrópoles http://www.observatoriodasmetropoles.net/ The initiative brings together multidisciplinary research on cities with an aim of highlighting the impacts of research to reduce social and regional inequalities in Brazil. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2010 |
| Sector | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Healthcare |
| Impact Types | Societal |
| Description | Observatório da Metrópoles |
| Geographic Reach | South America |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | The Brazilian National Institutes of Science and Technology (INCT) sponsors the Observatório da Metrópoles (City Observatories in Brazil), which has blogged results from the study and hosted talks by Professor Bassanesi. In collaboration with Bassanesi and his Department of Social Medicine in UFRGS, the Observatório da Metrópoles has set up a nucleus of research on urban health in Porto Alegre. |
| URL | http://www.observatoriodasmetropoles.net/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=237%3Asa%C3%BAde-urban... |
| Description | ESRC DTC PHD studentship award for Richard Conibere to investigate the role of socio-economic segregation and health in the UK |
| Amount | £65,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 1366823 |
| Organisation | NorthWest ESRC Doctoral Training Centre |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2013 |
| End | 08/2016 |
| Description | ESRC NWDTC PhD and AQM award: Nan Zhang to investigate the role of urbanisation, migration and children's health in China |
| Amount | £85,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 1238151 |
| Organisation | NorthWest ESRC Doctoral Training Centre |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2012 |
| End | 08/2015 |
| Description | Ageing and development - India, Brazil, China and South Africa |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Event bringing together researchers on ageing and development in India, Brazil, China and South Africa After my talk, there were discussions around developing joint research proposals between colleagues in development and myself around segregation in developing countries. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| Description | Spatial segregation and socioeconomic inequalities in health in Brazilian cities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Seminar to the Manchester local group of the Royal Statistical Society My work on segregation was made known to other statistical colleagues |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Spatial segregation and socioeconomic inequalities in health in Brazilian cities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Seminar to Health Sciences Research Group at the University of York There was an exchange of research ideas and collaboration that resulted from the talk. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Supercourse lecture on spatial segregation and spatial inequalities in health |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Supercourse is a repository of lectures on global health and prevention designed to improve the teaching of prevention. The Supercourse has been produced at the WHO Collaborating Center University of Pittsburgh. This supercourse lecture focused on the concepts related to spatial segregation and spatial inequalities in health. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| URL | http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec42451/index.htm |