(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.
(2010) The growing use of family planning around the world gives women and couples the ability to choose the number and spacing of their children.
(2010) Paraguay does not seem a likely candidate for rapid fertility decline: The population is poorer, more rural, and has lower educational levels than its neighboring countries.
(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.
(July 2009) Every year in sub-Saharan Africa, 265,000 mothers die in childbirth and 4.5 million children die before the age of 5 from preventable causes.
(June 2009) Family planning saves the lives of millions of women and infants every year in developing countries. But it could save many more.
2008) Close to 200 million people are living outside their country of birth. Increasing numbers are refugees fleeing their homeland for another country.
(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.
(2004) Sweeping changes in public health have transformed life over the past century. On average, people live longer, healthier lives than ever before.
(June 2003) Many less developed countries are reforming their health systems in an effort to achieve public health goals more affordably and effectively.