Kenya is experiencing a growing epidemic of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). A window of opportunity exists to address the four key NCD risk behaviors ( tobacco use, alcohol use, unhealthy diet, physical inactivity) in Kenya's large and growing youth population.
Project: IDEA: Informing Decisionmakers to Act
This ENGAGE presentation designed for improving access to health services (especially family planning and reproductive health), while also helping households improve livelihoods, manage natural resources, and conserve the critical ecosystems on which they depend.
(2006) Adolescent U.S. girls are being arrested in record numbers. And every year brings new media attention to mean or aggressive girls' behavior—with sensational newspaper headlines and book titles such as See Jane Hit: Why Girls Are Growing More Violent and What We Can Do About It and Sugar and Spice and No Longer Nice: How We Can Stop Girls' Violence.1 Could there be an epidemic of violence in the United States among girls—who have traditionally been considered more mature and less trouble to raise than boys?
(2003) With young people comprising a sizable proportion of Zimbabwe's population, government officials, health workers, and community leaders face the overwhelming task of meeting the reproductive health needs for this special group.
(2010) Over the past several decades, Latinos have made up an increasing share of the U.S. population.
Budget experts, parliamentarians, and key stakeholders gathered to discuss Demographic Dividend Sensentive Budgeting (DDSB)
(2018) Natural disasters focus the collective imagination on images of community devastation. Beyond the obvious external signs of disaster, such as destroyed homes and ruined infrastructure, are more intimate impacts, such as impeded access to reproductive health services.
Project: Demography and Economics of Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease
Researchers discussed how social media and new technologies may enhance—or limit—social connectedness and emotional well-being among older adults.
(2008) Unauthorized migration is a major issue in the United States and many other countries, sometimes generating intense publicity and debate.
