(2008) Recent demographic trends have created a youth bulge in the Middle East and North Africa, with nearly one in every five people age 15 to 24. Despite its oil wealth and improved health and education systems, the region's political, social, and economic systems still do not meet the needs of this rapidly growing young population.
(April 2002) For the same reason that a picture is worth a thousand words, maps are important tools for communicating information and for analyzing data in a spatial context.
(2009) Lack of access to quality health care and clean water and sanitation, undernutrition, and other preventable or treatable causes lead to the deaths of tens of thousands of children worldwide every day.
Faced with a deficit of nursing assistants and home health aides, rural areas lack the workforce they need for people to age in place, new research finds.
PRB is a partner on the PROPEL Health project, which is working to support more equitable and sustainable health services, supplies, and delivery systems through policy, financing, governance, and advocacy.
(2014) Changes in racial/ethnic composition, immigration, family composition, and age structure are linked to rising income inequality but they are not the primary or root causes.
(2007) The increase in women's participation in the U.S. labor force is one of the most important social, economic, and cultural trends of the past century.
