Knowledge on respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) risk factors may help inform public health authorities on high-risk populations, researchers suggest. “Although existing evidence from community-based ...

Classification and regression tree methods represent a potentially powerful means of identifying patterns in exposure data that may otherwise be overlooked. Here, regression tree models are developed ...

John Wilmoth is Director, Population Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA). Clare Menozzi, Lina Bassarsky and Danan Gu are Population Officers, UN DESA.

Physicians and nurses have long known what has become increasingly obvious to hospitals, health systems and health plans — social determinants of health (SDoH) have an outsized impact on health ...

Previous research has shown that low-income households bear a higher exposure to environmental pollution than high-income households. Some scholars have argued that selective siting of industrial ...

In 1994, widespread concern over population growth brought world leaders together at the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), held in Cairo, Egypt, in 1994. Today, however, ...

Elucidation of the complex interactions of forces that affect genetic structure within and among populations is important in the assessment of short-term viability and evolution of natural populations ...