Welcome to Urban Health Gateway

Urban Health Gateway (UH Gateway) is an extensive collection of literature related to urban health and related subjects, with focus on India. This is a subject gateway that helps you to find urban health-related information and leads you to where the resources are available. Our aim is to build the existing knowledge gap by creating an inventory of existing knowledge about urban slum health status and programs that have been implemented to improve the health of the urban poor.

Urban Health Resource Centre (UHRC) is a non-profit Indian organization which aims to address health issues of the urban poor through a consultative and knowledge-sharing approach in partnership with government and civil society. UHRC evolved as an independent organization from the USAID-funded Environmenal Health Project (EHP) in India. UHRC aims to develop, promote and test urban slum approaches to neonatal survival, diarrhea prevention and other child health priorities through behavior change and community actions; provide technical assistance to slum-based NGOs/CBOs and to Municipal Corporations to improve health-related service delivery and community linkages. An important facet of UHRC's work is also to provide assistance to the central and state governments on developing policies and programs that are sensitive to the emerging health needs of the urban poor. Complementing program development and technical assistance activities, is the generation of information that describe the health conditions of the urban poor, and making available information to a variety of stakeholders to influence policy making and increase allocation of resources to improve the health of the urban poor.