More Sleep Could Improve Many U.S. Teenagers’ Mental Health
California now requires most high schools to start no earlier than 8:30 a.m. to support students’ well-being and safety.
Region: Oceania
We Will Be Heard! A Multimedia Advocacy Toolkit for Young People Fighting for Change
PACE training toolkit designed for youth advocates to teach each other policy advocacy, communication, and multimedia storytelling skills.
Uganda’s Future Relies on Investments in Adolescent and Youth Family Planning
PRB partnered with Reach A Hand Uganda to convince decisionmakers to create an independent budget line for adolescent and youth family planning services and engage youth in these budgetary decisions.
Oldest Areas May Be Hardest Hit: The Importance of Age Structure in Understanding Mortality During the Coronavirus Pandemic
Evidence to date suggests that deaths among people who have tested positive for the coronavirus are highest at older ages and near zero for young children.
Contraceptive Needs of Older Nigerian Women Are Neglected
2013) Throughout the world, women ages 35 and older are often left out of conversations on contraception.
Volunteering and Health for Aging Populations
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(2011) In the next two decades, the number of Americans age 55 orolder will swell from 76 million to 110 million as the large
baby-boom generation continues to age.
Smoking-Related Deaths Keep U.S. Life Expectancy Below Other Wealthy Countries
(2010) The United States has a lower life expectancy than many other wealthy countries—and the gap has been widening over the last two decades.
PRB Discuss Online: How Is Immigration Changing the United States?
(June 2010) Immigration is a volatile issue for Americans, who must grapple with the tradeoff between the strain of incorporating new populations and the desire for immigrants’ labor.
PRB Discuss Online: How Do Americans Balance Work and Family?
(2010) PRB Discuss Online: How Do Americans Balance Work and Family?
PRB Discuss Online: Engaging Men in the Fight to End Violence Against Women
(2009) One in three women will experience an act of violence in their lifetime, whether it is domestic and interpersonal violence; sexual violence; violence in the name of “culture” or tradition; or systemic violence, as in the use of rape as an instrument of war.