Health Effect of Marriage and Other Social Relationships
(June 2009) Social relationships keep older people healthy, and the marriage relationship is especially beneficial.
Region: Northern America
Gender Differences in Health Among the Elderly in China
(June 2009) Men and women face distinct challenges in late life. Paradoxically, men tend to have shorter lives but women have more health problems at any given age.
Africa’s Future: Improving the Health of Mothers and Children
(2009) Every year, 265,000 mothers die in childbirth and 4.5 million children die before the age of 5 from preventable causes in sub-Saharan Africa.
PRB Discuss Online: How Family Planning Can Save More Lives
(June 2009) Family planning saves the lives of millions of women and infants every year in developing countries. But it could save many more.
The Effect of Smoking on Trends in U.S Mortality
(April 2009) Samuel Preston is the Fredrick J. Warren professor of demography, Population Aging Research Center, at the University of Pennsylvania.
Cognitive Impairment and Decline
(April 2009) When some people reach older ages, they begin to lose their ability to reason and to remember.
U.S. Adult Mortality and Health Trends in an International Context
(April 2009) Eileen Crimmins is a professor of gerontology and sociology at the Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California and the director of training, Multidisciplinary Research Training in Gerontology.
Differences Between the ACS and Decennial Census
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(2009) While the main function of the U.S.
Who Uses the ACS and Why?
(April 2009) The ACS puts up-to-date information about important social issues at the fingertips of people who need it, including policymakers, researchers, businesses and nongovernmental organizations, journalists, teachers, students, and the public.
Geographic Areas Covered in the American Community Survey
(2009) The ACS data are tabulated for a variety of different geographic areas ranging in size from broad geographic regions (Northeast, Midwest, South, and West) to neighborhoods and clusters of city blocks.