Innovative Technologies Combat Gender-Based Violence
(2014) Gender-based violence (GBV) is a difficult topic, encompassing a wide range of issues—from date rape to intimate partner violence to rape in conflict settings.
Region: Northern America
International PHE Conference Energizes New Audiences
(2013) The second international Population, Health, and Environment Conference, organized by the Population Reference Bureau (PRB) and the PHE Ethiopia Consortium, convened over two days in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, around the theme “Healthy Families, Healthy Environments.
Girl Scouts Release First Report on the Well-Being of U.S. Girls
A new report about the well-being of girls in America, The State of Girls: Unfinished Business, was recently published by the Girl Scouts Research Institute (GSRI) in collaboration with the Population Reference Bureau (PRB).
How Obesity Relates to Socioeconomic Status
(2013) According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, over one-third of U.S. adults are obese.
Webinar: The Economic and Social Consequences of Job Loss and Unemployment
In this recording of a webinar, Jennie E.
Today’s Research on Aging, Issue 29: Elderly Immigrants in the United States
(2013) In 2010, more than one in eight (11.9 percent) U.
Webinar: Net Migration Patterns as a Tool to Understand Community Change
Every year, about 10 million Americans move from one county to another. Migration rates vary by age, sex, race, and ethnicity and with local and national social and economic conditions over time.
How Fear and Loneliness Shape Body Chemistry and Health
(2013) The chronic stress of living in poverty, loneliness of social isolation, and fear endemic in some high-crime neighborhoods can alter gene activity and contribute to disease, according to Steve Cole, professor of medicine and behavioral sciences at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
Mothers’ Reading Skills Linked to Improved Child Survival and Student Achievement
(August 2013) In Nigeria, where 10 percent of the world’s deaths to children occur, literate mothers are much less likely to see their children die before their fifth birthday than their illiterate peers, according to a new study published online in the journal, Demography.
The Effect of Educational Attainment on Adult Mortality in the U.S.
In 2011, U.S.