(2017) The level of well-being of young American women (ages 16 to 34) rose significantly for members of the Baby Boom generation but hit a wall for women in subsequent generations, the Population Reference Bureau (PRB) concludes in a new report.
(2002) The Middle East and North Africa (MENA)* is the most water-scarce region of the world. Home to 6.3 percent of the world's population, the region contains only 1.4 percent of the world's renewable fresh water.
Project: IDEA: Informing Decisionmakers to Act
(2011) "Generations on the Rise in Pakistan" is an ENGAGE multimedia presentation that examines the important link between high fertility and the health of women and children, highlighting improvements in family planning use over time as well as the gaps in implementation.
(2011) The benefits of integrating family planning (FP) into maternal and child health (MCH) services go beyond improving access to FP. Integration can increase the number of trained health care personnel who are responsive to the needs of children and mothers, improve management of the health care system, and address the reproductive health of women while requiring fewer patient visits.
(November 2007) Norway has one of the highest fertility rates in Europe, at 1.90 lifetime children per woman in 2006. Within Europe, only Iceland (2.07 children per woman) and France (1.98 children per woman) have higher rates.
(2008) There has been increasing international news coverage of the excess of young boys in India resulting from the abortion of female fetuses.1
(2011) PRB's IDEA project is focusing attention on the integration of family planning into maternal and child health services, a concept that is not new, but for a variety of reasons was embraced in some countries and not in others.
(2009) Without a doubt, the American Community Survey (ACS) is fundamentally changing the way we collect and use data to assess the nation's population and housing. While the traditional census long form collected detailed socioeconomic data just once a decade, the ACS is a continuous survey that provides updated demographic, economic, and housing data every year.
(2010) Disability in older Americans affects the entire population of the United States because of its impact on the level of health care spending, especially spending on long-term care.