Health and Population
- Barbara Crossette
- • March 23, 2016
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Census figures everywhere confirm that the population of the world is getting steadily older. Much has been written and alarms have been sounded in richer nations about the economic effects of aging populations and declining births. But this phenomenon…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Health and Population, SDGs, Women
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- Barbara Crossette
- • March 1, 2016
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For more than a quarter-century, beginning in the late 1970s, the number of children born to a woman in Egypt had been declining, on average, to about 3.0, in line with declining fertility rate trends in much of North…
- Categories: Health and Population, Middle East, Women
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- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • January 27, 2016
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“Sport is the only area of human existence that has achieved universal law,” said Thomas Bach, the president of the International Olympic Committee when he announced that elite athletes who were refugees could compete in the 2016 Olympics under…
- Categories: Education, Gender Violence, Health and Population, Refugees
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- Barbara Crossette
- • January 11, 2016
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A respected medical journal and a leading American population research and policy organization have teamed up to create a commission to fill gaps and turn vague promises in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals into real gains for women’s…
- Categories: Health and Population, LGBT, SDGs, Women
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- Joseph Chamie
- • January 6, 2016
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Despite remarkable reductions in mortality, 13 sub-Saharan African countries — 1 out of every 20 people in the world — have yet to achieve life expectancies at birth of 55 years, the global average attained a half century ago….
- Categories: Africa, Development, Health and Population, Poverty, SDGs, Women
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- Lori Silberman Brauner
- • December 21, 2015
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Midwifery is one of the world’s most ancient vocations, its practitioners playing a prominent role dating back to the Bible. In much of the world, midwives continue to play an important role in maintaining the health of women and…
- Categories: Africa, Health and Population, SDGs, UN Agencies, Women
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • December 5, 2015
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KOUBRI, Burkina Faso — More than 2,500 miles away from this village, world leaders met recently in Paris to try to save the earth from severe climate change and its deadly effects. Here in West Africa, people in rural…
- Categories: Africa, Climate Change, Development, Health and Population
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • November 20, 2015
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In time for Universal Children’s Day, a new report shows how the war on drugs hurts children’s health, puts them into the line of fire amid drug-gang violence and leads them into the netherworld of human trafficking and enslavement….
- Categories: Gender Violence, Health and Population, Human Trafficking, Latin America, Poverty
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- Tendai Musakwa
- • November 10, 2015
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The first United Nations development aid program financed solely by African countries for their own benefit was announced recently at the UN headquarters in New York. Unitlife, which was presented as world leaders convened at the 70th session of…
- Categories: Africa, Development, Education, Health and Population, Women
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- Tendai Musakwa
- • September 24, 2015
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As the United Nations prepares to formally accept the new Sustainable Development Goals at midday at a summit meeting on Friday, here is a close look at one of the main resources that helped inform the long debate on…
- Categories: Governance, Health and Population, Latin America, Middle East, Poverty, SDGs, Women
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- Barbara Crossette
- • September 1, 2015
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Every year, the first week of August is dedicated to promoting the exclusive feeding of newborn infants with natural breast milk, which evidence shows can ensure numerous health benefits for mother and child. There are few if any specialists…
- Categories: Health and Population, Poverty, Women
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- Shazia Z. Rafi
- • August 17, 2015
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Remarkably after a yearlong effort by environmental health advocates, air quality has been embedded in the new set of universal development goals for a sustainable future. Since an estimated 60 percent of the global population will live in cities…
- Categories: Asia, Climate Change, Health and Population, SDGs
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- Amy Wu
- • July 27, 2015
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A trio of megatrends that could radically change the makeup of cities around the world is about to converge. “You have two very powerful trends,” says John Wilmoth, director of the United Nations Population Division. “There’s aging of population…
- Categories: Cities, Health and Population, Women
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- Tendai Musakwa
- • June 29, 2015
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SHANGHAI — Coal use by some of the world’s most advanced societies — Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States, known as the Group of 7 — has been increasing deaths and disease globally, Oxfam International,…
- Categories: Climate Change, Health and Population
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- Barbara Crossette
- • June 15, 2015
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More than five years have passed since the heart of Haiti was crushed by a cataclysmic earthquake that killed at least 230,000 people, only to be followed by an outbreak of cholera later that year that has left about…
- Categories: Caribbean, Health and Population, UN Peacekeeping
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