Project: Center for Public Information on Population Research (CPIPR)
Life Expectancy Is Increasingly Tied to a State’s Policy Leanings
Life expectancy is increasingly tied to a state's policy direction, says new analysis of U.S. Mortality Database.
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.
(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.
(2016) Every year, millions of girls in developing countries marry before their 18th birthday. In Egypt, it is one in six girls.
“Girls, women, families, society, and the economy all pay a price for the gaps in knowledge about women’s health,” a new report says.
(2000) This is the sixth in a series of profiles of the people who have most influenced thinking about population over the past century. The profiles bring you the insights of today's population specialists on the contributions of their predecessors and contemporaries.
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.
In early 2011, Pietronella van den Oever, PRB visiting scholar,visited the Malian staff and villagers she worked with in a UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) rural training project in the mid-1970s. As part of PRB's 2011-2012 Policy Seminar series, she discussed her recent research on the project's results, which continue to be economically and socially important 40 years later.
(2009) High unemployment rates are not just creating a drag on the U.S. economy, but are also linked to lagging population growth in economically distressed areas, according to a PRB analysis of data from the U.S. Census Bureau.