Project: Center for Public Information on Population Research (CPIPR)
Women who experienced childhood adversity are more likely to have their first child early or outside of marriage, face a greater risk of cancer than men, and are particularly vulnerable to health impacts when they are lower income.
In the book Five Generations at Work: How We Win Together, for Good, authors Patrick Dunne and Rebecca Robins describe how we’re living in a time of unprecedented demographic change, where five generations work alongside each other in an ideologically and politically fractured environment.
(2005) A new study contends that rising childhood obesity rates will cut average U.S. life expectancy from birth by two to five years in the coming decades—a magnitude of decline last seen in the United States during the Great Depression.
(2007)When where you born? How many brothers and sisters did you have? Where did your ancestors live? How long will you live?
Since the early 1960s, many countries have instituted large-scale programs to provide contraceptive access and services to their populations.
(2008) A new report from the Pew Research Center projects that immigration will propel the U.S. population total to 438 million by 2050, from 303 million today (see Figure 1). Along with this growth, the racial and ethnic profile of Americans will continue to shift—with non-Hispanic whites losing their majority status.
The 2020 Census count of people experiencing homelessness takes place in the middle of peak wildfire and hurricane seasons—and the coronavirus pandemic—making a complicated process even more challenging.
Project: PACE: Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health
The Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health (PACE) project is pleased to launch a completely revised Population, Health, and Environment (PHE) toolkit.
Family planning is critical for the health of women and their families, and it can accelerate a country's progress toward reducing poverty and achieving development goals. Because of its importance, universal access to reproductive health services, including family planning, is identified as one of the targets of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).