The IOM held a workshop on July 28, 2008, to examine strategies for discussing health disparities in ways that engage the public and motivate change. Speakers focused on health disparities in ...

Josiah Kephart, faculty member at the Urban Health Collaborative (UHC) and Usama Bilal, Co-Director of the UHC, have recently published a dual commentary in Nature Medicine. The article, Disentangling ...

You may have heard the phrase ‘demographic cliff’ tossed around recently. The phrase inspires fear — a fall from a precipice, a steep drop or a tumble downwards. It could imply a stark reduction and ...

In demography, our most common population projection tool is called cohort component projection. This tool treats different age groups (cohorts) separately, applying rates representing the three ...

GAA president Jarlath Burns says there has is "no bigger issue" for the association than demographic changes after recommendations were set out for the future of gaelic games. A report from the GAA's ...

How and why population matters : new findings, new issues / Nancy Birdsall and Steven W. Sinding -- The population debate in historical perspective : revisionism revised / Allen C. Kelley -- ...

Recently, I had the privilege of discussing bitcoin’s performance on a podcast, and naturally, the conversation expanded to a broader issue: the evolving landscape of retirement. In particular, ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...