Proposed Changes in Immigration Policy Put Children at Risk of Losing Health Insurance
By asoares
(2018) Many children may lose public health insurance and nutrition assistance benefits under proposed changes to U.S. immigration policy.
Region: Northern Europe
Sexual and Reproductive Health as a Pathway to Better Health in Uganda’s Kalangala District
(2018) Uganda’s Kalangala District has higher rates of HIV and teenage pregnancy than most of the country.
How Natural Disasters Can Influence Reproductive Health and Fertility
By asoares
(2018) Natural disasters focus the collective imagination on images of community devastation. Beyond the obvious external signs of disaster, such as destroyed homes and ruined infrastructure, are more intimate impacts, such as impeded access to reproductive health services.
Webinar: The Gender Action Plan (GAP) From a Reproductive Health Perspective
By asoares
On May 3, 2018, the People, Health, Planet team hosted a webinar titled “The Gender Action Plan (GAP) from a Reproductive Health Perspective.
Contraceptive Methods, Violent Relationships, Teenagers’ Perceptions Play a Role in Unintended U.S. Teenage Births
By asoares
Births to teenage mothers in the United States have hit record lows for eight successive years, but experts are quick to point out that U.S.
Expanding Contraceptive Method Choice for Successful Family Planning Programs
By asoares
Successful family planning programs listen to the different needs of clients and respond with strategies that expand informed, voluntary contraceptive choice: offering a range of affordable contraceptive methods; providing client-centered, comprehensive counseling; employing a variety of service delivery approaches; and ensuring continuous supplies of contraceptive commodities.
New Studies Link U.S. Hispanics’ Longer Life Expectancy to Migration Patterns, Less Smoking
In 2014, life expectancy at birth for the U.S.
Researchers Share Results With Policymakers – In Six Minutes or Less
By asoares
The Research Council of Norway, a funding partner in the Population and Poverty Research Network (PopPov) for which PRB is the Secretariat, recently hosted a knowledge-sharing event at the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) in Oslo, Norway.
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).
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.