Populationmatters.org

What Is Population Health Environment

WEB17 April 2024. Population Health Environment (PHE) is an integrated approach to environmental conservation, family planning, and sustainable development. Population …

Actived: 1 days ago

URL: https://populationmatters.org/news/2024/04/what-is-population-health-environment/

Exploring links between people, their health and the environment

WEBPopulation, Health and Environment is a development approach that recognises the links between local communities, their health and the natural resources …

Category:  Health Go Health

Education: The key to health, empowerment and equality

WEBEducation and health. The areas in which the impact of educational processes stands out the most prominently are reduced mortality, morbidity and fertility …

Category:  Health Go Health

Why protecting child health means ending population growth

WEB7 April 2021. On World Health Day, paediatrics expert Peter Le Souëf explains why unsustainable population growth hurts children the most and calls for placing current and …

Category:  Health Go Health

Four key ways in which human and environmental health are …

WEB4) Mental health. Last but not least, access to green spaces has been shown to be vital for mental well-being. According to the Mental Health Foundation, nearly half (45%) of UK …

Category:  Health Go Health

Infant mortality and population growth

WEBTHE ‘INSURANCE EFFECT’. Whilst it seems illogical, that higher infant mortality leads to higher population growth, that’s due to the ‘replacement’ or ‘insurance’ …

Category:  Health Go Health

Eating the planet: what our diets and population growth mean for …

WEBThe “Planetary Health Diet”, proposed by the EAT-Lancet Commission, would result in an almost 50% reduction, mainly through decreased red meat and dairy …

Category:  Health Go Health

High population density hurts child health, study finds

WEB8 October 2019. A new analysis of how different development factors affect the health of children in Africa found that child health is worst in countries with high population …

Category:  Health Go Health

Reproductive Healthcare: The Missing Link

WEB“to ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health-care services, including for family planning, information and education” – United Nations. The …

Category:  Health Go Health

Breaking the Cycle of Poverty

WEB8 March 2024. Access to sexual and reproductive health, including family planning, plays a pivotal role in shaping population dynamics and breaking intergenerational cycles of …

Category:  Health Go Health

The Lingering Anxiety Around the 'P' Word

WEBIt considers factors beyond birth rates and emphasises individual rights, especially for women, in reproductive health choices. This approach has shaped policies tackling …

Category:  Health Go Health

Ending the Silence on Population and Reproductive Rights

WEBThis week, Population Matters supported the release of Breaking Silos: Ending the Silence on Population and Reproductive Health and Rights, an independent …

Category:  Health Go Health

The impact of COVID-19 on women’s reproductive health in India

WEBIndia’s health system has been hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic and its long-term implications will result in fatalities for women. According to IPAS, 1.85 million …

Category:  Health Go Health

Gender-based violence

WEBDespite being acknowledged as a global public health issue by the World Health Organization, Violence Against Women and Girls, or gender-based violence, …

Category:  Health Go Health

The World and the UN Must Reduce Population Growth

WEBReproductive rights and family planning are mentioned in both SDG 3 (good health and wellbeing) and SDG 5 (gender equality), but neither goal explicitly aims to …

Category:  Health Go Health

Empower to Plan – Transforming lives, shaping futures

WEB12 March 2024. Empower to Plan, our small grants programme, supports grassroots projects on family planning, sexual and reproductive health, gender equality, …

Category:  Health Go Health

Urbanisation challenges in Kenya’s Nairobi: a tangled web of issues

WEBAfrica is witnessing rapid urbanisation, with urban populations growing at an average rate of 3.44% annually, according to the UN World Cities Report 2022. Nairobi, …

Category:  Health Go Health

Children at risk from overconsumption by the richest

WEBA new report published last week assesses and ranks 39 wealthy countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and/or the …

Category:  Health Go Health

Violated rights: the governments controlling women’s bodies

WEBForcing women to give birth is not restricted to developing countries. The pro-life lobby in the United States, fuelled by the conservative government, is making it …

Category:  Health Go Health

Climate Anxiety: Fear of the Future

WEB13 December 2023. Online searches for “climate anxiety” have risen, and a recent study suggests people are not having children due to fears of climate breakdown. With …

Category:  Health Go Health