This paper examines access to health care by poorer residents in Chennai, India. It reveals constraining and enabling conditions for impoverished users seeking treatment. We explore …
Chennai city the capital of Tamil Nadu is located in southeastern India. Its average population growth rate is 25% per decade, which recurrently alters the city’s land-cover particularly …
Background In India there are very few population based data on prevalence of depression. The aim of the study was to determine the prevalence of depression in an urban south …
Seawater intrusion promotes the salinity of groundwater, and it poses a great environmental impact on a global scale. The present study was carried out to determine the …
… is indispensable in cities, like Chennai, India, which are … the resilience of communities of Chennai to climate-related disasters. … , the local government of Chennai is the key stakeholder to …
… Chennai the fourth most densely populated Indian city is … It is predicted that in the next decade Chennai may become a … affecting land value for Chennai city and the importance of …
… Because Chennai is highly susceptible to water logging, we studied the topographic wetness index (TWI) for the catchments of Chennai city to determine areas likely to be saturated, …
… Chennai city was the major contributor. Out of 816 dengue cases reported from Tamil Nadu state in the year 2001, Chennai … percentage of dengue cases in Chennai city declined to 40–…
… in Chennai and predicts the future cancer burden in Chennai and Tamil Nadu state, India, using data on 89 357 incident cancers from the Chennai … 2012–16 in Chennai. Predictions for …
This article compares the resilience of two communities in Chennai, India, to climate-related disasters. The selected communities have similar exposure to natural hazards (cyclones …