Gombe National Park, a 35-square kilometer park in Kigoma Region in northwestern Tanzania, is most popularly known as the place where Jane Goodall conducted her pioneering research on chimpanzees beginning in the 1960s (see map).
(July 2006) Although recent research has established links between the kinds of foods available in a neighborhood and the health of that neighborhood’s residents, this research has rarely addressed the effects of food marketing on children—especially children in low-income neighborhoods.
(2006) As late as 25 years ago, China was concerned it had too many children to support.
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(2006) Although mental health is a sensitive topic the world over, the prevalence of mental illness and its consequences can no longer be overlooked.
(June 2006) Recent reports on the growing U.S.
(June 2006) For most of human history, communicable diseases such as malaria, smallpox, and tuberculosis (TB) were leading causes of death.
(June 2006) The development of vaccines for some of the world’s most deadly diseases—such as AIDS, tuberculosis (TB), and cervical cancer—are hampered by the complex natures of the diseases as well as the costly and lengthy process of vaccine development.
(2006) The “fertility transition”—the shift from large to small families that demographers have observed throughout much of the world—has been remarkably rapid in Morocco, according to a recently released demographic and health survey on that country.
(2006) The child poverty rate has become one of the most widely used indicators of child well-being in the United States.
(2006) The child poverty rate has become one of the most widely used indicators of child well-being in the United States.