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Peer Review of “Development of a Digital Platform to Promote Mother and Child Health in Underserved Areas of a Lower-Middle-Income Country: Mixed Methods Formative Study”

Peer Review of “Development of a Digital Platform to Promote Mother and Child Health in Underserved Areas of a Lower-Middle-Income Country: Mixed Methods Formative Study”

This study [1] draws on multiple sources of data to assess the efficacy and feasibility of a video-based mobile health (m Health) tablet intervention used to train and equip 10 community health workers (CHWs) in two slums in Pakistan. The overall strength of the paper is that the authors have collected in-depth qualitative data that can help inform the field on how to build and distribute such an intervention to improve the needs in low-resource communities.

Jamie Sewan Johnston

JMIRx Med 2024;5:e60430

Authors’ Response to Peer Reviews of “Development of a Digital Platform to Promote Mother and Child Health in Underserved Areas of a Lower-Middle-Income Country: Mixed Methods Formative Study”

Authors’ Response to Peer Reviews of “Development of a Digital Platform to Promote Mother and Child Health in Underserved Areas of a Lower-Middle-Income Country: Mixed Methods Formative Study”

This study [2] draws on multiple sources of data to assess the efficacy and feasibility of a video-based mobile health (m Health) tablet intervention used to train and equip 10 community health workers (CHWs) in two slums in Pakistan. The overall strength of the paper is that the authors have collected in-depth qualitative data that can help inform the field on how to build and distribute such an intervention to improve the needs in low-resource communities.

Zaeem Ul Haq, Ayesha Naeem, Durayya Zaeem, Mohina Sohail, Noor ul Ain Pervaiz

JMIRx Med 2024;5:e60266

Association Among Household Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) Status and Typhoid Risk in Urban Slums: Prospective Cohort Study in Bangladesh

Association Among Household Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) Status and Typhoid Risk in Urban Slums: Prospective Cohort Study in Bangladesh

Addressing the problem of typhoid fever in urban slums is particularly important as the highest burden has been reported in these settings including the occurrence of enhanced environmental transmission [12,13]. For example, in urban slums in Bangladesh, a high burden of typhoid fever (incidence of 200 per 100,000 person years of observation; PYO) and paratyphoid fever (incidence of 40 per 100,000 PYO) was reported [14].

Birkneh Tilahun Tadesse, Farhana Khanam, Faisal Ahmmed, Xinxue Liu, Md Taufiqul Islam, Deok Ryun Kim, Sophie SY Kang, Justin Im, Fahima Chowdhury, Tasnuva Ahmed, Asma Binte Aziz, Masuma Hoque, Juyeon Park, Gideok Pak, Hyon Jin Jeon, Khalequ Zaman, Ashraful Islam Khan, Jerome H Kim, Florian Marks, Firdausi Qadri, John D Clemens

JMIR Public Health Surveill 2023;9:e41207

COVID-19 and Slums: A Pandemic Highlights Gaps in Knowledge About Urban Poverty

COVID-19 and Slums: A Pandemic Highlights Gaps in Knowledge About Urban Poverty

Many African as well as some South Asian countries have the lowest income in the world, with a large proportion of the population living in precarious housing situations often referred to as “slums,” “informal settlements,” or “deprived areas.” According to United Nations estimates, about 1 billion people worldwide currently live in slums [3]. The socioeconomic situation of a person or a group may influence the course of COVID-19.

John Friesen, Peter F Pelz

JMIR Public Health Surveill 2020;6(3):e19578

Gender and the Digital Divide Across Urban Slums of New Delhi, India: Cross-Sectional Study

Gender and the Digital Divide Across Urban Slums of New Delhi, India: Cross-Sectional Study

This is because slums represent a hub of staggering economic disparities, which tend to be more diverse than the nonslum populations. In particular, a UN habitat report indicated that slums suffer from higher disease incidence and mortality, which exceed nonslum populations, and these disparities are rarely reflected in the national statistics, thereby masking the extent of the deprivation in slum settings [9]. Essentially, the state of slums constitutes an indicator of prosperous cities [9].

Ashish Joshi, Bhavya Malhotra, Chioma Amadi, Menka Loomba, Archa Misra, Shruti Sharma, Arushi Arora, Jaya Amatya

J Med Internet Res 2020;22(6):e14714