Policymakers and program planners rely on population projections to assess future demand for resources such as food, water, and energy, as well as services such as health and education.
Life expectancy in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has increased dramatically since 1950, largely as a result of medical and public health interventions that sharply cut the death toll from the most virulent infectious diseases and enabled many more children to survive to adulthood.
(2013) Despite having lower income and education levels, U.S. Hispanics tend to outlive non-Hispanic whites by several years.
One of the goals of development policies is to create an environment for rapid economic growth.
(2011 août) La santé sexuelle et reproductive couvre la santé et le bien-être au niveau des questions liées aux rapports sexuels, aux grossesses et aux naissances.
(2011) For years, family planning (FP) has been integrated with maternal and child health services (MCH) in countries such as Colombia, Indonesia, Mexico, the Philippines, and Thailand.
(June 2011) Many people know that individuals with higher levels of education tend to live longer and healthier lives than individuals with low levels of education.
Half of men ages 18 to 70 who participated in a study of genital human papillomavirus (HPV) in Brazil, Mexico, and the United States were infected with some form of the virus, according to the “HPV in Men” (HIM) study recently published in The Lancet.
(2010) Latinos are increasingly shaping the demographic makeup of the United States.
(2010) Peruvian women are having fewer children and waiting longer between pregnancies, many by using traditional family planning methods.