In U.S., Who Is at Greatest Risk for Suicides?
(2010) More than 30,000 Americans commit suicide each year; hundreds of thousands more attempt it but fail.
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Fiche de données sur la population mondiale 2010
(2010) De nombreux pays font face à une diminution de leur population en âge de travailler (généralement considérée comme étant les personnes âgées de 15 à 64 ans).
A Microfinance Network Fights Malnutrition in Haiti
(2010) By 2008, Haiti’s largest microfinance organization, Fonkoze, was providing savings accounts or loans to 190,000 clients, mostly women, at its 39 banking offices in rural areas.
Recent Trends in U.S. Child Care
(2010) Working parents in the United States face complex decisions on the type of care to provide for their children while they are at work, and child care costs continue to rise.
PRB Discuss Online: Are the News Media Holding Governments Accountable on Promises to Improve Public Health?
(2010) Perhaps the greatest satisfaction for a journalist is to see one’s reporting produce positive change. Journalists are the link between policymakers and the public, and their role as watchdog is to monitor the actions of government and hold those in charge accountable.
New Estimates Reassess Progress Toward Reducing Maternal and Under-5 Mortality
(2010) In April 2010, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IMHE), a research center at the University of Washington, released estimates showing unexpected declines in global maternal mortality compared with previous UN estimates.
Recession Putting Brakes on Increases in Low Birth Rates
(August 2010)
With the release of the 2010 World Population Data Sheet, PRB continues its tracking of birth rates in low fertility countries, begun in 2007.
The State of Metropolitan America
(2010) The State of Metropolitan America, by the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program, identifies five demographic trends and developments that dominated the first decade of the 2000s in the 100 largest metro areas of the United States.
Country Profiles for Population and Reproductive Health: Policy Developments and Indicators 2009/2010
(August 2010) Mobilizing the resources to reach the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) and Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target of universal access to reproductive health by 2015 is essential if international development goals are to be realized.
2010 KIDS COUNT Data Book
(2010) According to data released by the Annie E. Casey Foundation in its annual KIDS COUNT Data Book, overall improvements in child well-being that began in the late 1990s stalled in the years just before the current economic downturn.