 | Women’s Mental Health from a Life Course Perspective: Stakeholder Meeting on Maternal Health
December 2, 2019 The Keck Center of the National Academies Room 100 500 5th Street, NW Washington, DC
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The purpose of this planning meeting is to articulate a research framework that can help explain workplace qualities and policies that promote health and support work into older ages, and lead to the development of interventions to extend work life and promote health, particularly among the most vulnerable members of the workforce.
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Understanding the Status and Well-Being of Sexual and Gender Diverse Populations
The Committee on Population (CPOP) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will undertake a consensus study that will review the available data and future research needs on persons of diverse sexualities and genders (e.g., LGBTQ+ and MSM), as well as persons with differences in sex development (sometimes known as intersex), along multiple intersecting dimensions across the life course.
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| Workshop on Forced Migration Research: From Theory to Practice in Promoting Migrant Well-Being
The Committee on Population held a two-day public workshop in Washington, DC on May 21-22, 2019 in order to bring fresh and innovative approaches in social demographic theory, methodology, data collection and analysis, and practice and applications to the forefront of the community of researchers and practitioners who are concerned with better understanding and assisting forced migrant populations.
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Rising Midlife Mortality Rates and Socioeconomic Disparities
The Committee on Population (CPOP) and the Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT) is conducting a consensus study on the topic of rising midlife mortality rates and socioeconomic disparities.
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|  | Seminar on Gaps in the Dementia Care Workforce: Research Update and Data Needs
May 23, 2019 The Keck Center of the National Academies Room 100 500 5th Street, NW Washington, DC
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| Expert Meeting on Using Longitudinal Studies of Younger Cohorts for Aging Research
June 25-26, 2018 The Keck Center of the National Academies Room 100 500 5th Street, NW Washington, DC
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| Seminar on Leveraging Existing Data for the Study of Consequences of Disasters for Older Adults
June 27, 2018 The Keck Center of the National Academies Room 101 500 5th Street, NW Washington, DC
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| | | The Integration of Immigrants into American Society
This report summarizes what we know about how immigrants and their descendants are integrating into American society in a range of areas such as education, occupations, health, and language.
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Estimating the Prevalence of Human Trafficking in the United States: Considerations and Complexities
This publication from the Committee on National Statistics and the Committee on Population summarizes a workshop held in April 2019 that explored innovative sampling methods, technological approaches, and analytical strategies for estimating the prevalence of sex and labor trafficking in vulnerable populations. The workshop brought together statisticians, survey methodologists, researchers, public health practitioners, and other experts who work closely with human trafficking data or with the survivors of trafficking.
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| Future Directions for the Demography of Aging
This publication features papers, originally presented and discussed at a workshop held in August 2017, on new advances in the demography of aging and new trends and research directions that call for innovative conceptual, design, and measurement approaches.
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| Women's Mental Health across the Life Course through a Sex-Gender Lens
This publication from the Committee on population summarizes a workshop held in March 2018 that looked at research, programs and policies designed to better meet the mental health needs of women. Participants examined trends in mental health as well as risk and protective factors for diverse populations of women, and they considered the research needed for a better understanding of women’s mental health.
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| Demographic Effects of Girls' Education in Developing Countries
This publication briefly summarizes presentations and discussion from a workshop that tried to explore the relationship between girls’ education and demographic outcomes and to encourage more research on the determinants, content, context, and consequences of girls’ education.
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| Improving the Health of Women in the United States
This report from the Committee on Population and the Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice is the summary of a workshop held on women’s health and demography. The workshop was organized into four topical sessions, each designed to shed light on important determinants, consequences, effects and issues attending the relative disadvantage of women in the United States in comparison with women in other economically advanced nations.
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