Today’s Research on Aging 44: More Than a Feeling: How Social Connection Protects Health in Later Life
Older adults’ social ties are more important for physical and mental health than previously thought, new research shows.
Older adults’ social ties are more important for physical and mental health than previously thought, new research shows.
Project: PACE: Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health
Municipality-level estimates of adolescent fertility in Nepal allow decisionmakers to more strategically invest family planning resources to address high adolescent fertility.
(2007) Provisional results of the 2006 census in Nigeria show that Kano in the north is Nigeria's most populous state (9.4 million), followed by Lagos (9.0 million) in the south. Northern states account for 75 million people, while the southern states are home to 65 million. The total population was 140 million.
(2009) The 2010 Census questionnaire will be sent to every housing unit in the country.
Water and sanitation play a crucial role in the transmission of diarrheal disease. These environmental factors contribute to approximately 94 percent of the 4 billion cases of diarrhea that the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates to occur globally each year.
(2002) The HIV/AIDS epidemic is a crisis of enormous proportions that is rapidly wiping out many of the gains sub-Saharan Africa has achieved since the countries attained independence.
At the fractious Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787, America's founders conceived the idea of a national census to determine the number of representatives each state would send to Congress.
Middle East and North Africa (MENA) program, initiated in 2001 with funding from the Ford Foundation, responds to the region's need for timely and objective information on population, socioeconomic, and reproductive health issues.
(2004) As the 2000 election made clear, the presidential election actually is a series of 51 “winner take all” contests in each state and the District and Columbia. The candidate who wins a particular state is entitled to all of that state’s electoral votes—the equivalent of that state’s total number of senators and representatives.