Emerging Trends in Disability
Disability is an ambiguous demographic — affecting anywhere from 13 percent to 20 percent of the population — but one that is unambiguously increasing. Find out why by reading this Population Today article. (Population Today, August/September 2001)

Pesticides: A Threat to Central America's Children and the Region's Future
Pesticides pose a health threat to people of all ages, but children face the greatest danger of all. And while children all over the world are menaced by these chemicals, nowhere is the threat more serious than in Central America. (September 2001)

Childhood Asthma: A Growing American Epidemic
Asthma, the leading chronic illness for children in the U.S., affects one out of every 15 kids. The highest rates of asthma are found in non-Hispanic black children living in families with incomes below the poverty level. (August 2001)

Tackling Asthma in West Harlem
West Harlem Environmental Action (WE ACT), a community-based environmental health and justice organization, has been working since 1988 to reduce childhood asthma in the highly burdened neighborhoods of northern New York City. (August 2001)

Children's Environmental Health
An assortment of both traditional and emerging environmental threats endanger children's health at the outset of the 21st century, a problem that is attracting increasing attention from both activists and policymakers alike. (July 2001)

Challenges to Global Immunization Programs
Massive resources are dedicated to immunizing the children of developing countries against an array of vaccine-preventable diseases. Why is this money so important and what are the challenges in the global drive to save lives? (June 2001)

New Population Policies: Advancing Women's Health and Rights (PDF: 568KB)
This Population Bulletin reviews the evolution of national population policies, particularly following the historic 1994 Cairo conference. It describes the new focus on improving reproductive health and women's rights and how governments have tried to incorporate this new approach in their policies and programs. (March 2001)

Americans Living Longer, Not Necessarily Healthier, Lives
Are older people healthier today than they were a generation ago? The answer depends on which indicator of health is used to measure change. (Population Today, February/March 2001)

Health in Focus for World Water Day 2001
March 22 marks World Water Day 2001, an initiative stemming from the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro. That year, the UN General Assembly called for raising awareness about water and its threatened state on this date every year. "Water and Health" is the theme for 2001, and the World Health Organization (WHO) is the lead UN agency for the day this year. (March 2001)

India's Health Slowly Improves
Results of India's second National Family Health Survey show that progress is being made on many fronts but that, in general, the improvement is painfully slow. (Population Today, January 2001)