Policy Brief. Integrating Family Planning and Maternal and Child Health Care: Saving Lives, Money, and Time
(2011) As countries strive to reduce poverty and reach the Millennium Development Goals, they are also focusing on how population growth affects health and development.
Invisible care work has become a collective issue, and the data confirms it: It's time to integrate into our vision of growth what actually keeps our societies going.
Since the 1990s, Population, Health, and Environment (PHE) approaches have addressed the complex links between human health, environmental management, poverty, and population pressures in order to solve development problems in areas critical for biodiversity and natural resource management.
In early 2011, Pietronella van den Oever, PRB visiting scholar,visited the Malian staff and villagers she worked with in a UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) rural training project in the mid-1970s. As part of PRB's 2011-2012 Policy Seminar series, she discussed her recent research on the project's results, which continue to be economically and socially important 40 years later.
(2009) Family planning is a lifesaver for millions of women and children in developing countries according to a new report by the Population Reference Bureau.
(October 2004) Rising housing costs in rural America have put homeownership beyond the reach of many working-poor families. Owning a manufactured home (often also known as a "mobile home") in a rural trailer park is often touted to these families as an affordable "next best thing"—and a step toward conventional homeownership.
(2015) PRB has worked intensively in Kenya since 1998, with support from the U.S. Agency for International Development and in collaboration with local and international organizations, government institutions, decision makers, and the media to highlight the importance of population, family planning, and reproductive health as key development initiatives.
(2015) Policymakers in Kenya's Embu and Bungoma counties recently showed their support for family planning by approving firm budget commitments in the 2016 fiscal year.