A place-based analysis of COVID-19 risk factors in Bangladesh urban slums: a secondary analysis of World Bank microdata

• Main Authors: Shaikh Mehdi Hasan (Author), Susmita Das (Author), Syed Manzoor Ahmed Hanifi (Author), Sohana Shafique (Author), Sabrina Rasheed (Author), Daniel D. Reidpath (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2021-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background There is a lack of research investigating the confluence of risk factors in urban slums that may make them accelerators for respiratory, droplet infections like COVID-19. Our working hypothesis was that, even within slums, an inverse relationship existed between living density an...