ENGAGE Snapshot: Family Planning A Ripple Effect for Child Survival

This PRB ENGAGE Snapshot illustrates how family planning can improve child survival through healthy timing and spacing of pregnancy and achieving health nutrition for mothers and infants.

This ENGAGE presentation was created to increase support for PHE, an integrated approach to solving challenges in vulnerable and remote communities through improving access to health services (especially family planning and reproductive health), while also helping households improve livelihoods, …

This PRB ENGAGE Snapshot highlights the challenges faced by many families and communities around the world and how the population, health, and environment approach can address these challenges.

The goal of PRB's ENGAGE Presentation is to improve individuals' understanding of the health benefits of family planning for mothers and children; how family planning can contribute to child survival; and how these issues are related to national development.

Using examples from Thailand and Rwanda, this PRB ENGAGE Snapshot illustrates changing population age structure using population pyramids.

This ENGAGE Snapshot defines the changes in a population age structure that can lead to a demographic dividend, as well as identifies the additional set of investments necessary to harness economic growth through a demographic dividend.

Developed under the USAID-funded Informing DEcisionmakers to Act (IDEA) project, this and other ENGAGE presentations examine the relationship between family planning, reproductive health and sustainable national development.

The PRB ENGAGE presentation, "HoPE-LVB," aims to improve individuals' understanding of HoPE-LVB (Health of People and the Environment in the Lake Victoria Basin) and the population, health, and environment (PHE) approach.

This PRB ENGAGE Snapshot highlights how family planning can play a role in reducing poverty throughout sub-Saharan Africa and achieving the MDGs.

This PRB ENGAGE Snapshot sheds light on the relationship between fertility and gross national income, highlighting how family planning can contribute to development and economic growth.

This PRB ENGAGE Snapshot explains what gender equality means in terms of women's health and highlights how family planning and gender equality go hand-in-hand, to achieve development goals.

This PRB ENGAGE Snapshot explores the association between the adolescent fertility rate and the gross national income (GNI) per capita in Ghana. In addition, it examines how adolescent fertility rates vary by income level.