(2013) The second international Population, Health, and Environment Conference, organized by the Population Reference Bureau (PRB) and the PHE Ethiopia Consortium, convened over two days in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, around the theme “Healthy Families, Healthy Environments.
A new report about the well-being of girls in America, The State of Girls: Unfinished Business, was recently published by the Girl Scouts Research Institute (GSRI) in collaboration with the Population Reference Bureau (PRB).
Jeremy Shiffman is a Visiting Scholar at PRB, and professor of public administration and policy at American University in Washington, D.C.
The goal of PRB’s ENGAGE Presentation is to improve individuals’ understanding of the health benefits of family planning for mothers and children; how family planning can contribute to child survival; and how these issues are related to national development.
Video Series: When a country’s birth rate reaches roughly two children per woman, then ultimately the population growth stops.
Twenty years after its civil war ended in 1992, Mozambique has made significant progress. Economic growth has remained steady for over a decade.
(2013) The chronic stress of living in poverty, loneliness of social isolation, and fear endemic in some high-crime neighborhoods can alter gene activity and contribute to disease, according to Steve Cole, professor of medicine and behavioral sciences at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
(2013) The ENGAGE Presentation, “Harnessing the Demographic Dividend” aims to improve understanding of the demographic dividend, what it takes to realize that dividend, and the potential for the countries of sub-Saharan Africa to achieve the demographic dividend and associated economic growth.
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(août 2013) L’objectif du guide Exploiter le dividende démographique, une presentation ENGAGE, est d’améliorer la compréhension par les individus du dividende démographique, de la manière d’atteindre ce dividende et du potentiel pour les pays d’Afrique subsaharienne d’atteindre le dividende démographique et la croissance économique qui y est associée.
(2013) Despite having lower income and education levels, U.S. Hispanics tend to outlive non-Hispanic whites by several years.