Since around 1980, fewer Americans than before are doing better than their parents had that is, more are experiencing downward social and economic mobility in terms of occupational status and income.
Although much research has been conducted on community-level factors related to the risk of dementia in general, less is known about the factors that affect the ability of older adults with dementia to age in place successfully.
From April 25-26, 2023 the Committee on National Statistics of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a workshop to identify challenges in and opportunities for measuring suicide in the law enforcement occupation.
Over the past several decades, fertility rates have fallen substantially in low- and middle-income countries, and efforts to limit fertility, primarily through the implementation of family planning programs, have become increasingly widespread.
Structural racism refers to the public and private policies, institutional practices, norms, and cultural representations that inherently create unequal freedom, opportunity, value, resources, advantage, restrictions, constraints, or disadvantage for individuals and populations according to their race and ethnicity both across the life course and between generations.
In September 2023, the Committee on Population at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a workshop, Developing an Agenda for Population Aging and Social Research in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs).
This book presents an in-depth discussion within diverse contexts and a range of conceptual and methodological offerings, which interrogate not only issues concerning the migration discourse, but of gender theory and practice as well.
Nosso planeta já atingiu a marca de 7,2 bilhões de pessoas, conforme o estudo Perspectivas de População Mundial, divulgado no ano de 2013 pela Organização das Nações Unidas (ONU).
Este libro se refiere a aquellos lugares que se crean por coyunturas particulares en periodos cortos de tiempo y, en buena medida, de manera espontánea, en los espacios públicos urbanos a cielo abierto, en los que se manifiestan distintas formas de sociabilidad.
Esta publicación hace parte de un proyecto de investigación iniciado en el año 2010, cuando, como resultado de un convenio suscrito entre la Universidad Industrial de Santander y la Gobernación de Santander, se formuló la Visión Prospectiva de Santander 2030, con enfoque territorial.
Viele Menschen werden sich die Frage gestellt haben, warum es gerade die Europäer waren, die es fertig brachten, die Kenntnis der Naturgesetze auf einen Stand zu führen, die es ermöglichte, durch ihre Nutzung die Menschheit in ein technisches Zeitalter zu führen.
El objetivo principal de esta obra es reconstruirlos procesos migratorios que llevaron a los migrantes de la ex Unión de Repúblicas Socialistas Soviéticas, a residir en Bucaramanga (Colombia).
This book discusses the historical context, country experience, and best practices that led to eliminating infectious diseases from the WHO's South-East Asia Region, such as malaria, lymphatic filariasis, yaws, trachoma, and mother-to-child HIV in the mid-twentieth and twenty-first century.
This book discusses the historical context, country experience, and best practices that led to eliminating infectious diseases from the WHO's South-East Asia Region, such as malaria, lymphatic filariasis, yaws, trachoma, and mother-to-child HIV in the mid-twentieth and twenty-first century.
Este documento es el resultado de más de 15 años de investigación y fortalecimiento de capacidades para la planeación participativa con perspectiva poblacional que la Universidad Externado de Colombia ha adelantado con socios nacionales e internacionales como el Fondo de Población de Naciones Unidas, los programas de desarrollo y paz de Meta, Magdalena Medio y Montes de María, y entidades del orden nacional como el Departamento Nacional de Planeación, el Ministerio de Vivienda, Ciudad y Territorio y el Ministerio de Salud y Protección Social.
Im vorliegenden Werk mit dem Titel ›Die Erfindung der Sklaverei‹ entfaltet der Autor eine fesselnde Analyse, die den Ursprung und die Entwicklung der Sklaverei in verschiedenen Gesellschaften kritisch beleuchtet.
Soziale Ungleichheit, Globalisierung und die demographische Entwicklung - allein diese drei globalen Trends eröffnen Perspektiven für eine Fülle von Themen.
Winner of the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political WritingFinalist for the Governor Generals Literary Award for Non-fiction and theTrillium Book AwardA Globe and Mail, National Post, Toronto Life, Walrus, CBC Books,Chatelaine, Hill Times,49th Shelf and Writers Trust Best Book of the YearWith the urgency and passion of Ta-Nehisi Coates (Between the World and Me), the seductive storytelling of J.