Ripple Effects: Population and Coastal Regions
(2003) Coastal regions, areas that are home to a large and growing proportion of the world's population, are undergoing environmental decline.
(2003) Coastal regions, areas that are home to a large and growing proportion of the world's population, are undergoing environmental decline.
Many women in developing countries, too poor to pay for the reproductive health services they need, use vouchers to defray the cost of care.
(2010) This year's World Health Day (April 7) focuses on the importance of urban health. Urbanization is occurring so rapidly in some parts of the world that cities are not able to keep up with increased demand for environmental, health, and educational services, not to mention the employment, housing, and transportation needs of a population that may double in size in less than 25 years.
(2011) PRB's IDEA project is focusing attention on the integration of family planning into maternal and child health services, a concept that is not new, but for a variety of reasons was embraced in some countries and not in others.
(2008) Each generation has unique characteristics, and a generation's size and relationship to a previous generation can shape lifelong social and economic opportunities.
(2003) Education is a key part of strategies to improve individuals' well-being and societies' economic and social development.
Project: IDEA: Informing Decisionmakers to Act
Family planning is widely recognized as one of the most cost-effective health interventions.
Project: KIDS COUNT
(2010) According to data released by the Annie E. Casey Foundation in its annual KIDS COUNT Data Book, overall improvements in child well-being that began in the late 1990s stalled in the years just before the current economic downturn.
(2013) Family planning services promote a wide range of health and socioeconomic benefits to women, men, and their families. Still, many barriers prevent women from using contraception.