Project: Center for Public Information on Population Research (CPIPR)
Dramatic and spontaneous natural disasters garner substantial humanitarian aid—as they should. But long-term chronic environmental pressures such as heat stress also put tremendous strain on rural households, especially households in less developed countries that rely on agriculture.
Project: Population and Poverty (PopPov) Research Network
(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.
(2012) Women in South Africa have had fewer children on average since the 1970s, but the rate of teenage childbearing in South Africa has remained the same, at 54 births per 1,000 women ages 15 to 19.
(2012) Gender-based violence is a global issue. This PRB ENGAGE Snapshot highlights the consequences violence can have for women's reproductive health, such as higher rates of unintended pregnancy, stillbirth, and miscarriage.
For 20 years, Population Reference Bureau has been connecting human health and planetary health, to show how population dynamics (including family planning) and environmental change interact and affect human and planetary health. Our new name for this practice area is People, Health, Planet.
Updates to the mHealth Compendium’s family planning case studies highlight how programs have evolved, revealing insights on sustainability and scalability.