Unnatural Causes, a 7-part documentary series about socioeconomic and racial disparities and health, will air on PBS in 2008 and will also be available on DVD. For more about the project and the documentary, see the Unnatural Causes Web site.

According to a state-by-state analysis conducted by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) covered 6.6 million children last year, and nearly 9 million children remained uninsured.

Citation: State Health Access Data Assistance Center (2007). Protecting America’s Future: A State-by-State Look at SCHIP & Uninsured Kids. Princeton, NJ: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. (Available online)

The following grant announcements are new this week on the Population Research Institute Funding Announcements web page.

Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships - Ford Foundation - National Research Council

Minority Faculty Fellowships - Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)

NIH Partners in Research Program (R03) - National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Migration and religion in a globalized world
Online
Annie E. Casey Foundation. Center for the Study of Social Policy (Washington, D.C.)

Kids count data book 2007
Online
Bogue, Donald

Essays In Human Ecology
HM206.B63
707 Oswald (Library)
Chen, Xianglei. Chandler, Kathryn

Efforts by public K-8 school to involve parents in children’s education: do school and parents agree?
LB 1048.5.C44 2001
707 Oswald (Library)
Children’s Defense Fund

State of America’s children 2005, The
Online
Great Britain. Office of National Statistics

Annual abstract of statistics 2007
Online
National Bureau of Statistics China

China statistical yearbook 2006
Online
Population Reference Bureau

2007 World population data sheet of the Population Reference Bureau
FILE Population Reference Bureau
707 Oswald (Library) - File Cabinets
Rio Group

Compendium of best practices in poverty measurement
Online
Thailand National Statistical Office, Ministry of Information and Communication Technology

Key Statistics of Thailand, 2006
HA4600.55.P736 2006
707 Oswald (Library)
UNESCO

Education for all global monitoring report 2007: strong foundations
Online
UNFPA

Growing up urban (State of World Population 2007 Youth Supplement)
Online
United Nations

Millennium development goals report 2007, The
Online
United Nations Population Fund

State of world population 2007, The
Online
United States Bureau of Labor Statistics

Women in the labor force: a databook (2006 edition)
Online
Worldwatch Institute

Vital signs 2007-2008
TD193.2 .B76 2007
707 Oswald (Library)

A study of Ariaal men in Kenya is the first outside North America to observe that single men have higher levels of testosterone than married men (Science Blog).

Citation: Peter B. Gray, Peter T. Ellison, and Benjamin C. Campbell (2007). Testosterone and marriage among Ariaal Men of Northern Kenya. Current Anthropology 48(5): 750-755. (Available online to the Penn State community)

Deaths by cancer are declining rapidly, a sign of progress in the fight against the disease, according to a report released today by national cancer organizations (National Cancer Institute).

Citation:  D. K. Espey, X. Wu, J. Swan, et al. (2007). Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, 1975-2004, Featuring Cancer in American Indians and Alaska Natives. Cancer. (Available online)

New from Springer: Quality of Life in Old Age: International and Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives, edited by Heidrun Mollenkopf and Alan Walker. Available in Penn State’s Social Sciences Library.

Newsweek’s Robert Samuelson writes about why presidential candidates and think tanks alike have been quiet about possible solutions to problems facing an aging population, and makes a call for action.

The education budget of a single country like France, Germany, Italy or the United Kingdom outweighs education spending across the entire sub-Saharan African region, according to a new report from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics. The Global Education Digest 2007 focuses on financing of education and includes the latest statistics on primary to tertiary education from more than 200 countries.

US Children get worse care than adults, and even white, middle-class children with health insurance often fail to get the recommended care, according to a new study by researchers at RAND, the University of Washington, and Seattle Children’s Hospital Research Institute (BusinessWeek).

Citation: Rita Mangione-Smith, Alison H. DeCristofaro, Claude M. Setodji, et al. (2007). The quality of ambulatory care delivered to children in the United States. New England Journal of Medicine 357:1515-1523. (Available free online)