(November 2009) Every year, thousands of workers are injured or die on the job from preventable accidents in the United States. Immigrants, especially Hispanics, are disproportionately exposed to dangerous jobs.
(October 2009) Social and intimate connections change with age. These changes affect and are affected by health.
(November 2009) Despite the extensive research done on the HIV/AIDS epidemic, there have been relatively few studies on the impact of HIV/AIDS on older persons in developing countries.
(September 2009) On Aug. 12, 2009, PRB released the 2009 World Population Data Sheet at a press briefing in Washington, D.
(2009) “Honor Killings” claim the lives of at least 5,000 women each year in traditional societies around the world; many more women live under the fear of these attacks.
(October 2009) For 25 years, the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) program, funded largely by the U.S.
(2009) Timely economic data provide the means to assess the severity of the current economic hardship on the U.S.
(July 2009) Representative estimates on behavioral, clinical, and biological HIV/AIDS indictors are critical for evaluating a country’s response to the HIV epidemic.
(2009) The percent of children in poverty (19 percent based on data released on Sept. 10 by the U.
(2009) Between 2007 and 2008, U.S. household income fell sharply as the unemployment rate increased.