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World Population Highlights 2007: HIV/AIDS

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Gender and Equity in Access to Health Care Services in the Middle East and North Africa

(2006)The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has experienced major improvements in health over the past few decades.1 Today, on average, a girl born in Egypt is expected to live for 72 years—nearly 20 years longer than if she had been born in the early 1970s—owing in large part to a 70 percent improvement in infant mortality rates over the same time period.

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Analyzing Big Data on a Shoestring Budget

Big data has opened a new world for demographers and public health scientists to explore. But is analyzing big data practical and affordable?

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Project: Appalachia: Demographic and Socioeconomic Trends

Chartbook. The Appalachian Region: A Data Overview from the 2007-2011 American Community Survey

(2013) Appalachia's residents remain older, less educated, and less racially diverse than the United States as a whole, but those demographic and socioeconomic patterns vary widely within the region, according to The Appalachian Region: A Data Overview From the 2007-2011 American Community Survey, prepared by the Population Reference Bureau for the Appalachian Regional Commission.

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PRB Discuss Online: ‘Next Generation’ Contraceptives, Who Will Benefit and How?

(2010) What are the "next generation" contraceptives? Several innovative contraceptive methods are expected to enter the market within five years, and more are under development. What are they and who is likely to use them? How might new methods help reduce the unmet need for contraception of an estimated 200 million women worldwide?

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Outlining the Links Among Population, Economy, Culture, and the Environment

2008) Joel E. Cohen, professor and head of the Laboratory of Populations at Rockefeller and Columbia Universities and a trustee of the Population Reference Bureau, kicked off a new lecture series on demographics and development sponsored by the Center for Global Development, on Sept. 23 in Washington, D.C. Entitled "Beyond Population: Everybody Counts in Development," his presentation focused on the links among population, the economy, culture, and the environment, and the need to examine development holistically.

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