HIV/AIDS Behaviors and Interventions in Chinese Americans
(2008) The prevalence of HIV/AIDS increased faster among Asians and Pacific Islanders in the United States than in any other group between 2001 and 2004.1
Region: Northern America
PRB Discuss Online: Environmental Change, What Are the Links With Migration?
2008) Close to 200 million people are living outside their country of birth. Increasing numbers are refugees fleeing their homeland for another country.
Family Planning Challenges and Decentralization of Health Services in Latin America
(June 2008) In recent decades, several countries throughout Latin America have undergone health sector reform in efforts to improve the quality of care and the level of coverage.
Population Bulletin, vol. 63, no.2: U.S. Labor Force Trends
(2008) During the past four decades, baby boomers coming of age and the rise in women’s labor force participation increased the size of the U.S.
PRB Discuss Online: The Middle East Youth Bulge, Causes and Consequences
(2008) Recent demographic trends have created a youth bulge in the Middle East and North Africa, with nearly one in every five people age 15 to 24.
State-by-State Costs of Child Poverty in the U.S.
(2008) Research has shown that growing up in poverty leads to negative health, social, and economic consequences for children that often continue in adulthood.
Race, Ethnicity, and Where You Live Matters: Recent Findings on Health and Mortality of U.S. Elderly
(2008) Over the past 50 years, remarkable improvements in health care and higher incomes have benefited older Americans from all racial and ethnic groups. But significant gaps persist and have even widened among some groups.
Early Childhood Nutrition And Economic Benefits
(2008) Experts agree that nutrition has a significant impact on child health, growth, and development in the first two years of a child’s life.
African-Born Blacks in the Washington, D.C., Metro Area
Black African immigrants began arriving in the Washington, D.C.
PRB Discuss Online: Beyond 300 Million, Regional and State Population Trends in the United States
(December 2007) In October 2006, the U.S.