What if the Resilience of Our Societies Began With Care?
Invisible care work has become a collective issue, and the data confirms it: It's time to integrate into our vision of growth what actually keeps our societies going.
Invisible care work has become a collective issue, and the data confirms it: It's time to integrate into our vision of growth what actually keeps our societies going.
Infertility receives nowhere near the attention or funding of fertility decline or aging despite asking the same fundamental question.
HIV/AIDS emerged in the late 20th century. Believed to have originated in Africa, the disease has spread worldwide. Occurrence of HIV/AIDS and primary means of diffusion vary among regions. Because of the social and economic impacts of this disease, students should have a good understanding of the patterns and processes that define the spread of the disease.
(2013) Africa, by far the world’s poorest region, will record the largest amount of population growth of any world region between now and 2050.
Project: Combatting Noncommunicable Disease Risk Factors in Youth
(2013) The four major NCDs—cardiovascular disease, most cancers, diabetes, and chronic respiratory diseases—will account for approximately 81 percent of deaths in Latin America and the Caribbean by 2030, and 89 percent of all deaths in high-income countries.
Nearly all future population growth will be in the world's less developed countries, and the poorest of these countries will see the greatest percentage increase.
(2006) Two important demographic trends have reshaped the typical person's life dramatically over the past century: Increasing longevity and the shrinking number of children per family.
(2017) The level of well-being of young American women (ages 16 to 34) rose significantly for members of the Baby Boom generation but hit a wall for women in subsequent generations, the Population Reference Bureau (PRB) concludes in a new report.