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Urban slum dwellers-especially in emerging-economy countries-are often poor, live in squalor, and suffer unnecessarily from disease, disability, premature death, and reduced life expectancy. Yet living in a city can and should be healthy. Slum Health exposes how and why slums can be unhealthy; reveals that not all slums are equal in terms of the hazards and health issues faced by residents; and suggests how slum dwellers, scientists, and social movements can come together to make slum life safer, more just, and healthier. Editors Jason Corburn and Lee Riley argue that valuing both new biologic and "street" science-professional and lay knowledge-is crucial for improving the well-being of the millions of urban poor living in slums.

Urban ecology (Sociology) --- Cities and towns --- Urban health --- Slums --- Urban ecology --- Urban environment --- Social ecology --- Sociology, Urban --- Global cities --- Municipalities --- Towns --- Urban areas --- Urban systems --- Human settlements --- City health --- Urban public health --- Urbanization --- Public health --- Slum clearance --- Housing --- Health aspects. --- Environmental aspects --- Health aspects --- E-books --- biology. --- brazilian slums. --- economic scientists. --- emerging economies. --- global health. --- global poverty. --- global slums. --- global south. --- hazards of slum living. --- health equity. --- health inequities. --- health issues in urban centers. --- health issues of urban poor. --- human settlements. --- indian slums. --- international poverty. --- international urban poor. --- kenyan slums. --- slum dwellers. --- slum life. --- slums worldwide. --- social scientists. --- street science. --- urban poor. --- urban slums.