Health & Wellness : Research

This report presents a case study of the renovation of Charles Young Elementary School in Washington, DC, focusing on how an improved school environment contributed to higher levels of educational performance. The school was chosen as a school revitalization demonstration project for the Urban Schools Initiative.

The Pebble mine project has been developed by Vancouver-based Northern Dynasty Ltd., but the real work would be carried out by its joint venture partner Anglo American PLC, one of the world’s largest mining companies. Concerned about the project and unfamiliar with Anglo American, two Alaska organizations—the Renewable Resources Coalition and Nunamta Aulukestai (Caretakers of the Land)—commissioned a background report on the company.

The brief authored by the Stockholm International Water Institute, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, and the International Water Management Institute shows that the current food crisis is less a crisis of production than a crisis of waste.

If China were to follow the lead of the United States, where each person demands nearly 10 hectares of productive area, China would demand the available capacity of the entire planet! In contrast, if China can model a new development path that achieves environmental quality, social harmony, and human well-being, it will lead the way for the world as a whole.

This report offers an in-depth look at Africa’s ecological resources and the role those resources can play in advancing the region’s human development goals – or, if mismanaged, in thwarting them.

Seven articles about water problems around the globe and what is being done to solve them.

Through an analysis of a survey of over 11,000 business leaders from over 130 countries, our latest report, Tackling Tuberculosis: The Business Response, examines the concern and business response to TB. The report also provides recommendations for the action of businesses and includes case studies of how companies have responded to the challenge of TB.

This report is the third in a series that focuses on Latino immigrant health in the United States. This volume focuses on Mexican immigrants in particular as the largest Latino immigrant group in the U.S., and in recognition that people from many Latin American countries often have similar experiences as immigrant workers. Here we give special attention to the situation low-wage immigrant workers face when they come to the United States, in particular the way in which their occupations and immigration status may imply a cost for their health.