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Maternal Care in India Reveals Gaps Between Urban and Rural, Rich and Poor

(2003) Hena is four months pregnant and her expression tells it all: Her eyes are dull and her face is pale as she waits to be examined by the doctors at Calcutta Rescue, a nongovernmental organization that works with poor people.

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Client-Centered Quality: Clients’ Perspectives and Barriers to Receiving Care

To provide high-quality care, providers must understand and respect their clients' needs, attitudes, and concerns. These client perceptions are in turn affected by personal, social, and cultural factors.

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9 Billion World Population by 2050

(2000) The current period of rapid population growth will continue for at least another 50 years, according to the 2000 World Population Data Sheet of the Population Reference Bureau. By 2050, the world is expected to add 3 billion more people to reach a total of 9 billion.

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The U.S. Recession and the Birth Rate

(2009) Speculation has been rife in the media on the possible effect of the current recession on the U.S. birth rate. In January of this year posed this same question but now, at mid-year, unemployment is approaching 10 percent for the first time in over a quarter century, the housing "bubble" has truly burst, banks and industries that have been pillars of the economy have gone bankrupt, and consumer confidence has reached one of its lowest points in the past 50 years.

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Africa’s Struggle with Desertification

(2001) Desertification is most severe in Africa. Arid lands account for two-thirds of the African continent, and three-quarters of the continent's drylands that are used for agriculture have already begun to lose productivity.

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Le prochain problème démographique mondial

Renseignez-vous auprès de personnes d'un certain âge à propos du " problème de population " et la première et peut-être l'unique réponse que vous obtiendrez est celle de la " bombe démographique " ou du " choc démographique ".

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The World’s Next ‘Population Problem’

(2005) Ask about "the population problem" to people of a certain age, and the first and perhaps only thing that comes to mind is the "population bomb" or "population explosion."

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More U.S. Children Raised by Grandparents

(2012) Growing numbers of children in the United States are living with a grandparent. In 2010, about one in 14 U.S. children (7 percent) lived in a household headed by a grandparent—for a total of 5.4 million children, up from 4.7 million in 2005.1

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Emerging Epidemics in China

(2003) Since gaige kaifang or "reform and opening" began in 1979, China has moved to integrate itself into the global economic system, attracting foreign investment and exporting its goods to the world. For this country of 1.3 billion people, economic integration has also required unprecedented mobility of its people and exposure to travelers from other countries.

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