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J Epidemiol Community Health 2004;58:778 doi:10.1136/jech.2004.023192
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Children, housing, and health: from Glasgow slums to displaced persons

  1. Catherine A O’Donnell1,
  2. Graham C M Watt1,
  3. Jumanah E Zabaneh2
  1. 1General Practice and Primary Care, Division of Community-based Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
  2. 2Green Line Association, Beirut, Lebanon
  1. Correspondence to:
 Dr C A O’Donnell
 General Practice and Primary Care, Division of Community-based Sciences, University of Glasgow, 1 Horselethill Road, Glasgow G12 9LX, UK; Kate.O'Donnellclinmed.gla.ac.uk

    The link between poor housing, environmental conditions, and health has been long established.1 In Glasgow, one of the worst areas of slum housing was in the Gorbals. The photograph on the left, taken around 1925, shows a young woman at a communal sink in a backcourt, behind …

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