Voucher Programs Encourage Quality Reproductive Health Services
Many women in developing countries, too poor to pay for the reproductive health services they need, use vouchers to defray the cost of care.
Many women in developing countries, too poor to pay for the reproductive health services they need, use vouchers to defray the cost of care.
Faced with a deficit of nursing assistants and home health aids, rural areas lack the workforce they need for people to age in place, new research finds.
(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.
Project: PACE: Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health
PRB has developed seminal resources to support decisionmakers on measures to enhance contraceptive continuation for women who want to avoid pregnancy.
Are data users aware of all the resources offered by the American Community Survey? We went on the road in Texas to find out.
(2009) The financial decisions facing older adults as they reach retirement age are increasingly more difficult.
(2010) A new study conducted in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has revealed that perpetrators and victims of high rates of sexual gender-based violence in the region include large numbers of both men and women and are associated with increased post-traumatic stress disorder and depression, as well as physical health outcomes.
Young adults are generally very healthy. In a recent survey, 96 percent of 18-to-24-year-old Americans reported being in excellent, very good, or good health. Less than 5 percent reported a serious physical, mental, or emotional disability.1 Yet the transition from adolescence and dependence on parents to independent young adulthood is fraught with potential health dangers—and mortality statistics reflect these hazards.