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This annotated bibliography of publications provides materials sourced from published and grey literature within different theme areas of work relating to equity in health in east and southern Africa.

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Pediatric asthma and ambient pollutant levels in industrializing nations

Jassal MS (2014 September)

Themes:

Poverty and health

URL:

http://inthealth.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2014/12/03/inthealth.ihu081

Secular trends in habitual physical activities of Mozambican children and adolescents from Maputo city

dos Santos FK; Maia JA; Gomes TN; Daca T; Madeira A; Damasceno A; Katzmarzyk P; Prista A (2014 October)

Themes:

Poverty and health

URL:

http://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/11/10/10940

A longitudinal study of long-term change in contamination hazards and shallow well quality in two neighbourhoods of Kisumu, Kenya

Okotto-Okotto J; Okotto L; Price H; Pedley S; Wright J (2015 April)

Themes:

Poverty and health

URL:

http://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/12/4/4275

Seasonal variations in under-five mortality, stratified by neonatal, post-neonatal and child mortality, in Korogocho and Viwandani urban slums in Nairobi, Kenya: A time-series analysis on secondary data from the Nairobi Urban Health and Demographic Survei

Moberg M (2015)

Themes:

Poverty and health

URL:

http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:826952/FULLTEXT01.pdf

The nutrition and health transition in the north west province of South Africa: A review of the THUSA (transition and health during urbanisation of South Africans)

Vorster HH; Venter CS; Wissing MP; Margetts BM (2005 August)

Themes:

Poverty and health

URL:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16153329

Determinants of under nutrition among school age children in a Nairobi peri-urban slum

Chesire EJ; Orago AS; Oteba LP; Echoka E (2008 October)

Themes:

Poverty and health

URL:

http://www.ajol.info/index.php/eamj/article/viewFile/9671/31081

Overweight and obesity in urban Africa: A problem of the rich or the poor?

Ziraba AK; Fotso JC; Ochako R (2009 December)

Themes:

Poverty and health

URL:

http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/9/465

Does socioeconomic inequality in health persist among older people living in resource-poor urban slums?

Falkingham JC; Chepngeno-Langat G; Kyobutungi C; Ezeh A; Evandrou M (2011 June)

Themes:

Poverty and health

URL:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21431465

Monitoring of health and demographic outcomes in poor urban settlements: Evidence from the Nairobi urban health and demographic surveillance system

Emina J; Beguy D; Zulu EM; Ezeh AC; Muindi K; Elung'ata P; Otsola J; Ye Y (2011 June)

Themes:

Poverty and health

URL:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3132229/

Bringing sexual and reproductive health in the urban contexts to the forefront of the development agenda: The case for prioritizing the urban poor

Mberu B; Mumah J; Kabiru C; Brinton J (2014 December)

Themes:

Poverty and health

URL:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4152622/

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