A Demographic Profile of U.S. Workers Around the Clock
(2008) The nature of work continues to change dramatically with the extension of work operations around the clock being one of the most striking alterations.
(2008) The nature of work continues to change dramatically with the extension of work operations around the clock being one of the most striking alterations.
(2012) Jan. 25, 2012, marked the one-year anniversary of the antigovernment protests in Egypt that led to President Hosni Mubarak's resignation. Hundreds of thousands of Egyptians, including a vast majority of young people, demanded political freedom, better wages, and better working conditions.
Project: PACE: Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health
Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: Data and Trends Update 2017, produced with support from the U.S. Agency for International Development, provides the latest data on the practice in 29 developing countries with representative and comparable data—although FGM/C occurs worldwide.
2007) In 2005, about 191 million people—3 percent of the world's population—were international migrants, according to UN estimates.
HIV/AIDS emerged in the late 20th century. Believed to have originated in Africa, the disease has spread worldwide. Occurrence of HIV/AIDS and primary means of diffusion vary among regions. Because of the social and economic impacts of this disease, students should have a good understanding of the patterns and processes that define the spread of the disease.
Project: Evidence to End Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting
From 2015 to 2019, the African-led consortium developed innovative research methods and uncovered new evidence about the practice and how it is changing—focusing on families and communities, and health and legal systems—in eight countries: Burkina Faso, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, Somalia, and Sudan.
Project: Center for Public Information on Population Research (CPIPR)
Life expectancy is increasingly tied to a state's policy direction, says new analysis of U.S. Mortality Database.
Project: PACE: Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health
Understanding the broad range of actors in the family planning landscape is critical to improving program advocacy and implementation.
(2012) The widespread adoption of family planning represents one of the most dramatic changes of the 20th century. The growing use of contraception around the world has given couples the ability to choose the number and spacing of their children, which, in turn, has prevented large numbers of unintended pregnancies, reduced the number of abortions, and reduced the incidence of deaths and illnesses related to pregnancy and childbirth.