Topic: Population and Demographics

Aging in Sub-Saharan Africa: Recommendations for Furthering Research - This report adds to the empirical and conceptual knowledge of the situation of older people in sub-Saharan Africa and makes practical suggestions for...

Cities Transformed: Demographic Change and Its Implications in the Developing World (2003) - Virtually all of the growth in the worlds population for the foreseeable future will take place in the cities and towns of the developing world. Over...

Countering Urban Terrorism in Russia and the United States: Proceedings of a Workshop - In January-February 2005, the National Academies Committee on Counterterrorism Challenges for Russia and the United States and the Russian Academy of...

Critical Perspectives on Schooling and Fertility in the Developing World (1999) - This volume assesses the evidence, and possible mechanisms, for the associations between women's education, fertility preferences, and fertility in...

Data Priorities for Population and Health in Developing Countries: Summary of a Workshop (1996) - This report is a summary of a workshop organized by the Committee on Population to discuss data collection priorities for the design, monitoring, and...

Demographic Change in Sub-Saharan Africa (1993) - This overview includes chapters on child mortality, adult mortality, fertility, proximate determinants, marriage, internal migration, international...

Demographic Effects of Economic Reversals in Sub-Saharan Africa (1993) - This book examines the effects of economic downturns in recent decades on first marriages, first and second births, and child mortality in Botswana,...

Effects of Health Programs on Child Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa (1993) - This book examines the effects of health interventions on infant and child mortality. Discussions of levels and trends of infant and child mortality...

Electoral Systems and Conflict in Divided Societies (1999) - This work examines whether the choice of an electoral system in a culturally plural society can affect the potential for future violent conflict. We...

Emerging Infections: Microbial Threats to Health in the United States (1992) - The emergence of HIV disease and AIDS, the reemergence of tuberculosis, and the increased opportunity for disease spread through international travel...

Emerging Infectious Diseases from the Global to the Local Perspective: Workshop Summary (2001) - In October 1999, the Forum on Emerging Infections of the Institute of Medicine convened a two-day workshop titled “International Aspects of Emerging...

Emerging Microbial Threats to Health in the 21st Century (2003) - The purpose of the study was to review the current state of knowledge and policy responses concerning emerging infectious diseases. The committee...

Environmentally Significant Consumption: Research Directions (1997) - This book demonstrates that the relationship of consumption to the environment needs careful analysis by environmental and social scientists and...

Factors Affecting Contraceptive Use in Sub-Saharan Africa (1993) - This book discusses current trends in contraceptive use, socioeconomic and program variables that affect the demand for and supply of children, and...

Forced Migration and Mortality (2001) - In recent years the number of complex humanitarian emergencies around the world has been increasing. War and political, ethnic, racial, and religious...

Growing Populations, Changing Landscapes: Studies from India, China, and the United States (2001) - As the world’s population exceeds an incredible 6 billion people, governments—and scientists—everywhere are concerned about the prospects for...

Human Interactions with the Carbon Cycle: Summary of a Workshop (2002) - The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) has identified the global carbon cycle as a major program element. An interagency Carbon Cycle...

Improving Birth Outcomes In Developing Countries - Birth outcomes worldwide have improved dramatically in the past 40 years. Yet there is still a large gap between the outcomes in developing and...

In Her Lifetime: Female Morbidity and Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa (1996) - The relative lack of information on determinants of disease, disability, and death at major stages of a woman's lifespan and the excess morbidity and...

Leveraging Longitudinal Data in Developing Countries: Report of a Workshop (2002) - Longitudinal data collection and analysis are critical to social, demographic, and health research, policy, and practice. They are regularly used to...

Malaria Control During Mass Population Movements and Natural Disasters (2002) - Admittedly, the world and the nature of forced migration have changed a great deal over the last two decades. The relevance of data accumulated...

(NAS Colloquium) Plants and Population: Is There Time? (1999) - This Colloquium was organized to shed light on how the world will feed its still expanding population in a sustainable way while maintaining enough...

New Frontiers in Contraceptive Research - More than a quarter of pregnancies worldwide are unintended. Between 1995 and 2000, nearly 700,000 women died, and many more experienced illness,...

New Research on Population and Environment - With support from NICHD and the Hewlett Foundation, the National Research Council’s Com-mittee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change (CHDGC), with...

Our Common Journey: A Transition Toward Sustainability (1999) - World human population is expected to reach upwards of 9 billion by 2050 and then level off over the next half-century. How can the transition to a...

People and Pixels: Linking Remote Sensing and Social Science (1998) - Space-based sensors are giving us an ever-closer and more comprehensive look at the earth's surface; they also have the potential to tell us about...

Population Dynamics of Senegal (1995) - This volume, the last in the series Population Dynamics of Sub-Saharan Africa, examines key demographic changes in Senegal over the past several...

Population Growth and Economic Development: Policy Questions (1996) - This book addresses nine relevant questions: Will population growth reduce the growth rate of per capita income because it reduces the per capita...

Premature Death in the New Independent States (1997) - In recent years there have been alarming reports of rapid decreases in life expectancy in the New Independent States (former members of the Soviet...

Rapid Population Change in China, 1952-1982 (1984) - The remarkable changes in fertility, nuptiality, and mortality that have occurred in the People's Republic of China from the early 1950s to 1982 are...

Reducing Birth Defects: Meeting the Challenge of the Developing World (2003) - Each year, more than 4 million children are born with birth defects. Reducing the Impact of Birth Defects: Meeting the Challenges in the Developing...

Reproductive Health in Developing Countries: Expanding Dimensions, Building Solutions (1997) - Sexually transmitted diseases, unintended pregnancies, infertility, and other reproductive problems are a growing concern around the world,...

Social Dynamics of Adolescent Fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa (1993) - This examination of changes in adolescent fertility emphasizes the changing social context within which adolescent childbearing takes place....

The Epidemiological Transition: Policy and Planning Implications for Developing Countries (1993) - This book examines issues concerning how developing countries will have to prepare for demographic and epidemiologic change. Much of the current...

Tools and Methods for Estimating Populations at Risk from Natural Disasters and Complex Humanitarian Crises - Each year, millions of people around the world are displaced by natural or human-induced disasters and social conflicts resulting in humanitarian...