Project: Demography and Economics of Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease
Older Black adults are less likely than their white peers to have private insurance and more likely to rely on Medicaid or Medicare as their only health insurance.
Project: PACE: Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health
Le Sénégal s’Engage: la Religion et la Santé familiale (Senegal Engage: Religion and Family Health) is a new ENGAGE presentation that serves as an advocacy tool to connect reproductive health and family planning issues with faith-based attitudes and beliefs.
Investments in young people are crucial to achieving a demographic dividend. The demographic dividend provides a framework for promoting investments in youth as fertility declines and population age structure changes. Sustained investments in voluntary family planning, health, education, and job growth can help to guide a country towards a demographic dividend.
(2009) De par le monde, les jeunes – surtout les jeunes femmes – connaissent un fort taux de VIH et de grossesse non désirée à cause de leurs connaissances limitées concernant la santé sexuelle et reproductive.
The introduction of water filtration and chlorination in major U.S. cities between 1900 and 1940 accounted for about one-half of the 30 percent decline in urban death rates during those years, according to research published in the February 2005 issue of the journal Demography.
With support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, PRB is working to expand local analysis of women’s unpaid care work and stakeholder engagement in African countries.
(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.
PRB produced a global interactive database and a series of regional policy reports and data sheets that highlight the importance of taking action now to address noncommunicable disease (NCD) risk factors among youth.