(2015) Senegalese journalist Maimouna Gueye won a 2015 Global Health Reporting award from the International Center for Journalists for stories she wrote after participating in a program organized by the Population Reference Bureau (PRB) in southern Senegal and the capital, Dakar.
“Girls, women, families, society, and the economy all pay a price for the gaps in knowledge about women’s health,” a new report says.
Project: Demography and Economics of Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease
As Americans live longer, researchers have begun to investigate how people can move into old age not just healthier, but also happier.
(2013) Despite more funding for health services during the past decade (per capita health spending rose from US$21 in 2000 to US$45 in 2009), India is unlikely to reach the targets for the health-related 2015 Millennium Development Goals (MDG).1
(2009) Unique events, political climates, and social and economic conditions shape each new generation in every society.
(2010) Humans are living longer than ever before. In fact, newborn children in high-income countries can expect to live to more than 100 years.