Socio-economic activities of slum dwellers in Ghana: towards health and environmental implication

The study examined slum residents' daily activities for survival, their implications on the environment, and the health of the inhabitants. The narrative design based on the qualitative methodology was deployed among 23 participants for an in-depth qualitative interview. The findings show various socioeconomic activities, such as processed and unprocessed food stuff; unskilled and unskilled labor, undertaken by the slum residents to fend for themselves. Such activities tend to negatively impact the environment in which people live as well as the health of the residents. The findings should be carefully applied to other slum communities with similar characteristics across all contexts. The outcome of the study provides city administrators with practical evidence of environmental pollutants occasioned by slums’ socioeconomic activities and their health implications in a developing country context. The novelty of this research lies in its application of two theoretical frameworks to examine the same slum phenomenon, emphasising the impact on the ecology and health of residents.