... conditions of the slums, the serious water supply problem and lack of proper sanitation, the severe air pollution, and the effects of the Asian economic crisis explain the poor health status of small ... the poor from the not poor, the comfortable from 4 the slum dweller. Thus within the world of DHS data, a young child struggling to survive on the garbage dumps of Manila or in the City of ... the urban poor The document investigates the hypothesis that the determinants of health, as well as the corresponding burden of disease and mortality among children in marginalized areas of...