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PRB Discuss Online: What Is Your ‘Race’? A Question Increasingly Difficult to Answer

(2010) The concept of "race" has always been controversial, given ugly associations with slavery, the eugenics movement, and racism.

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PRB Discuss Online: Africa’s Demographic Challenges

(2012) Of the 48 least developed countries in the world, 33 are located in sub-Saharan Africa. At the same time, this region stands out with the highest birth rates in the world.

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Ripple Effects: Population and Coastal Regions

(2003) Coastal regions, areas that are home to a large and growing proportion of the world's population, are undergoing environmental decline.

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Report. Ripple Effects: Population and Coastal Regions

(2003) Coastal regions, areas that are home to a large and growing proportion of the world's population, are undergoing environmental decline.

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PRB Discuss Online: How Can Family Planning Programs Reduce Poverty? Evidence From Bangladesh

(2010) Family planning is one of the most cost-effective health interventions in the developing world.

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Urbanization: An Environmental Force to Be Reckoned With

(2004) Human beings have become an increasingly powerful environmental force over the last 10,000 years. With the advent of agriculture 8,000 years ago, we began to change the land.1

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High Obesity Rates Plus Severe Coronavirus Cases Could Strain Rural U.S. Hospitals

As coronavirus cases rise in less densely populated states in the Midwest and West, the disease, combined with high levels of obesity in rural America, could pose major challenges for health care systems, suggests Mark Lee at the University of Minnesota.

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Rwanda’s Success In Improving Maternal Health

(2015) Rwanda today has been hailed as one of the few countries on a fast track to reducing child and maternal mortality--thus meeting two of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals in 2015.

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