Solutions to Reducing Vaccine-Preventable Childhood Diseases
In a previous web article we explored how improvements in immunization rates over the past three decades have plateaued, leaving substantial gaps in coverage.
Area of Expertise: Children, Youth, and Families
Webinar: Extreme Poverty and Health in the United States
(2015) Studies show that a growing number of U.S.
Evidence Can Help Make Sustainable Development Investments Strategic
Over the next 15 years, public and private funders are likely to invest trillions of dollars to make progress towards the proposed Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Can a Nuclear Deal Help Iran’s Young Labor Force?
This article by PRB’s Farzaneh Roudi was published in the Wilson Center Middle East Program’s Viewpoints series.
Urban and Rural Disparities Remain Despite Progress in Closing Health and Development Gaps
By asoares
A majority of the world’s people live in urban areas, a milestone that was reached only within the last decade.
U.S. Marriage, Divorce, Childbearing Trends Bring New Risks for Parents, Children
(2015) Three presentations about increased childbearing outside marriage, more parents with children from more than one partner, and a shrinking share of married people in the U.S.
Time With Parents Key for Adolescents
(2015) The more time mothers spent engaged in activities with their adolescent children (ages 12 to 18), the less teens were involved in delinquent behavior, such as skipping school, shoplifting, staying out at night without permission, and getting in trouble at school or with the law, according to a study in the most recent issue of the Journal of Marriage and Family (see Figure 1).
Lowest-Income Countries Hit Hardest by Climate Change
This article is a summary of a longer article by Monica Das Gupta, “Population, Poverty, and Climate Change,” World Bank Research Observer 29, no. 1 (2014): 83-108. All citations are included there.
Policy Brief. Noncommunicable Diseases in Africa–Youth Are Key to Curbing the Epidemic and Achieving Sustainable Development
(2015) Establishing healthy behaviors among young Africans could help stem a looming regional epidemic of noncommunicable diseases like cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and chronic respiratory conditions, according to this PRB policy brief and data sheet with comprehensive data appendix.
Data Sheet. Youth Are Key to Tackling Noncommunicable Diseases in Africa
(2015) Establishing healthy behaviors among young Africans could help stem a looming regional epidemic of noncommunicable diseases like cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and chronic respiratory conditions, according to this PRB policy brief and data sheet with comprehensive data appendix.