The Population Reference Bureau informs people around the world about population, health, and the environment, and empowers them to use that information to advance the well-being of current and future generations
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- Discuss Online: Child Poverty ...
http://discuss.prb.org
Wednesday, September 30 at 1:00pm - PRB Discuss Online: Explaining...
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Thursday, June 11 at 1:00pm - Discuss Online: How Family Pla...
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Thursday, May 28 at 1:00pm - PRB Policy Seminar: Reproducti...
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Wednesday, April 8 at 12:00pm - PRB Discuss Online: "Are Some ...
http://discuss.prb.org
Tuesday, March 24 at 1:00pm
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Take part in the PRB's upcoming Discuss Online: “Marriage Is Good for Your Health”
Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009, 1–2 p.m. (EST) (GMT -5)
Research shows that married people are healthier and live longer than unmarried people. Linda Waite, professor of sociology at the University of Chicago and director of the University of Chic...ago’s Center on Aging, has studied the ways that marriage, widowhood, divorce, and remarriage affect physical and mental health. Some of the findings are surprising, and they are important for the well-being of the growing number of older people. Join Waite as she answers your questions about how and why marriage affects health, and policies that might enhance the benefits of marriage and social networks for older people.Read More
Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009, 1–2 p.m. (EST) (GMT -5)
Research shows that married people are healthier and live longer than unmarried people. Linda Waite, professor of sociology at the University of Chicago and director of the University of Chic...ago’s Center on Aging, has studied the ways that marriage, widowhood, divorce, and remarriage affect physical and mental health. Some of the findings are surprising, and they are important for the well-being of the growing number of older people. Join Waite as she answers your questions about how and why marriage affects health, and policies that might enhance the benefits of marriage and social networks for older people.Read More
Source: discuss.prb.org
Welcome to PRB Discuss Online. This feature of PRB's website gives you "live online" access to experts from PRB and elsewhere to answer your questions about noteworthy and newsworthy population, health, and environment topics, trends, and issues.
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Four population experts discuss what they will take away from the XXVI International Population Conference and what they see as important emerging issues in their field, whether it's education, climate change, demographic transitions, etc.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SljzIiKhr
Source: www.youtube.com
The IUSSP conference occurs only every four years and is the largest international gathering of population scientists. PRB asked a diverse group of experts attending the 2009 IUSSP meetings in Marrakech, ...
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A new website on urban reproductive health has launched from the Measurement, Learning & Evaluation Project of the Urban Reproductive Health Initiative. Check it out.
The Urban Reproductive Health Initiative, a multi-country program targeting the urban poor, improves contraceptive choice and increases access to high qu...ality, voluntary family planning. The MLE Project will identify the most effective country-level approaches, facilitate knowledge sharing, and build a robust evidence base to shape future urban family planning, reproductive health, and integrated maternal and newborn health programs.Read More
The Urban Reproductive Health Initiative, a multi-country program targeting the urban poor, improves contraceptive choice and increases access to high qu...ality, voluntary family planning. The MLE Project will identify the most effective country-level approaches, facilitate knowledge sharing, and build a robust evidence base to shape future urban family planning, reproductive health, and integrated maternal and newborn health programs.Read More
Source: www.urbanreproductivehealth.org
The Urban Reproductive Health Initiative, a multi-country program targeting the urban poor, develops cost-effective integrated family planning interventions to improve reproductive health outcomes. The ...
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Interview with Journalist Rana Husseini on The Fight to Stop Honor Killings
http://discuss.prb.org/content/interview
Population Reference Bureau PRB Discuss: Interview with Rana Husseini on The Fight to Stop Honor Kil
Source: discuss.prb.org
How can you change the mind set of a religous group.? It is not just individuals but their religious leaders who must take the lead in confronting this terrible crime. All counties must act and all governments must take responsibility to make sure the changes happen. ...
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What is a city? What is urbanization?
Only about 5 percent of the world's population lives in the largest cities or, more properly, metropolitan areas. The fact that over half of the world's population live in places termed urban is a notable development, to be sure. But, at the same time, it is useful and important to know just how the term "urban" is defined.
Source: www.prb.org
One-half of the older men in 10 European countries were overweight in 2004; only one-third of men qualified as having normal weight. More...
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"Distilled Demographics," PRB's new video series, highlights key demographic concepts such as fertility, mortality, and migration. Through these videos, each under 10 minutes, you can learn demography's real-world application and impact. In this first video, PRB senior demographer Carl Haub shows how population pyramid...s give us a snapshot of a country's past, present, and future.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSoSYm4AO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSoSYm4AO
Source: www.youtube.com
Population pyramids give us a snapshot of a countrys demographic profile, showing age ranges by sex, but what do they tell us about a countrys past and future? This episode of Distilled Demographics shows how demographic trends have major social and economic ramifications.
Population Reference Bureau Birth Rates Rising in Some Low Birth-Rate Countries
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With the release of the 2009 World Population Data Sheet , PRB continues its tracking of birth rates in low fertility countries, begun in 2007.
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The percent of children in poverty (19 percent based on data released on Sept. 10 by the U.S. Census Bureau) is far higher than that of the working-age population or the elderly. Prior to 1972, the elderly actually had a higher poverty rate than children, but pensions, social security, and Medicare have dramatically im...proved the lives of the elderly. While raising the next generation of Americans is clearly important, the U.S. government spends nearly $5 on the elderly for each $1 spent on children.
Join Bill O'Hare, senior fellow at the Annie E. Casey Foundation, as he answers your questions about child poverty in the United States on Sept. 30 at 1pm at http://discuss.prb.org.Read More
Join Bill O'Hare, senior fellow at the Annie E. Casey Foundation, as he answers your questions about child poverty in the United States on Sept. 30 at 1pm at http://discuss.prb.org.Read More
Time:1:00PM Wednesday, September 30th
Location:http://discuss.prb.org
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Listen to an interview with PRB's Mark Mather on the social impacts of the recession on the U.S. population, from NPR's Marketplace program:
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/displ
Source: marketplace.publicradio.org
Population Reference Bureau Check out our recent interview with Henrik Urdal, senior researcher at the Center for the Study of Civil War and associate editor of the Journal of Peace Research at International Peace Research Institute in Oslo, Norway on youth bulges and urbanization and their effects on conflict.
Source: www.prb.org
Whether countries with large youth populations will be able to provide education and employment opportunities to young people over the coming years and decades is one of the major questions facing developing countries. The answer not only affects the well-being of youth, but affects many countries'...
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Listen to a story on world population trends on National Public Radio's Marketplace program, featuring PRB senior demographer Carl Haub
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/displ
Source: marketplace.publicradio.org
Over 7 billion people by 2011? : A new projection indicates the world population may surpass 7 billion people in the next two years. But the population is contracting in parts of Europe and Asia, while Africa may add 1 billion more people by mid-century. John Dimsdale reports.
Ssebiryo Francis As a population scientist, iits great to join thousands of experts around the world to exchange ideals on how we can attain a health population.
Adebayo Olukunle Ajala It's great to be a fan of PRB, it can never be too late to being a fan
Bal Patil
I have advocated population control and related matters like raising marriageable age, legalising abortion, since sixties in India in my writings. PRB has raised the issue if India will be the only country heading towards 2 billion. That is a grim propect and makes it necessary to consider demographic measures how suc...h spiralling growth can be contained by timely measures.
I am giving an image of my article "Raising Marriageable Age: Its Demogaphic Impact published in The Economic Times in 1976Read More
I am giving an image of my article "Raising Marriageable Age: Its Demogaphic Impact published in The Economic Times in 1976Read More
