Malnutrition, defined as ill health caused by deficiencies of calories, protein, vitamins, and minerals interacting with infections and other poor health and social conditions, saps the strength and well-being of millions of women and adolescent girls around the world.
HOW WE HAVE CHANGED SINCE THE UNITED STATES WAS A NATION OF 200 MILLION (September 2006) The United States is set to reach a milestone in October. It will become the third country—after China and India—to be home to at least 300 million people.
Project: Center for Public Information on Population Research (CPIPR)
People who did not spend their entire childhoods living in a stable two-parent family face greater chances of downward economic mobility than their peers who did, finds Deirdre Bloome of the University of Michigan.
(2000) Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania are in the midst of a transition to independence after nearly 50 years of domination by the Soviet Union. Some of the first laws passed by the newly independent governments placed strict limits on who could become a citizen and actively promoted use of the native languages.
(2008) Despite rapid population growth in parts of the U.S. South and West, 43 percent of all counties lost population since 2000-nearly twice the number of counties that lost population during the 1990s (1,346 counties vs. 689 counties).
Project: Center for Public Information on Population Research (CPIPR)
Specifically, married and cohabiting mothers report more housework than never-married or divorced/separated mothers, but all mothers report about the same amount of child-care time.
(2011) "Vasectomy is like putting money in the bank. [It] is a long-term investment, money you [would] have otherwise used to buy expensive birth control methods," says Dr. Charles Ochieng, a medical doctor in Kenya.
Project: Demography and Economics of Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease
Biomarkers, or biological indicators, are increasingly employed in empirical studies of human populations to understand physiological processes that change with age, diseases whose onset appears linked to age, and the aging process itself.