PRB Discuss Online: Growing Up in North America, How Are Children Faring Economically?
(2008) Globalization helped increase incomes in Canada, the United States, and Mexico for more than 10 years, but left many children vulnerable economically.
(2008) Globalization helped increase incomes in Canada, the United States, and Mexico for more than 10 years, but left many children vulnerable economically.
(2002) New data from the U.S. Census Bureau show that 12.4 percent of the U.S. population — about 34 million people — were below the poverty level in 1999.* The data, which include the first information available from the 2000 Census long form, show wide disparities in poverty levels among states and local areas.
We must hold two things to be true: Populations are rapidly shrinking and rapidly booming—just in different places.
Combining big data with traditional data can generate richly detailed and valuable analyses for global health professionals, but its use comes with drawbacks.
(2007) Child Poverty in Perspective: An Overview of Child Well-Being in Rich Countries, was published by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and included countries from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.
2008) In the last five years, interest in global health education has surged.
Project: Empowering Evidence-Driven Advocacy
The copper IUD is a T-shaped plastic device wrapped in copper wire. The hormonal IUD is a T-shaped plastic device that contains 52 milligrams of levonorgestrel (progestin hormone). Both are long-acting reversible contraceptive methods. The copper IUD is effective for 10 years and the hormonal IUD is effective for three to five years. This method must be inserted and removed by a trained provider and does not contain estrogen.
Project: American Community Survey and Decennial Census Support Services
(2014) Countries around the world are paying more attention to inequality as an indicator of social and economic well-being.