NICHD Demographic & Behavioral Sciences Branch (DBSB) Report to the NACHHD Council 2003

Table of Contents

• Executive Summary

• Introduction
• Sexual Behavior, Unintended Pregnancy, and HIV

• Adolescent Sexual Behavior and Sexual Relationships
• Research on Contraceptive Practice and Unintended Pregnancy
• HIV Risk and Prevention
• Impact of HIV

• Family and Fertility

• Marriage
• Divorce
• Cohabitation Outside Marriage
• Nonmarital Childbearing
• Fertility: Trends, Timing, and Motivation
• Public Policy and Family Formation
• Male Fertility and Fatherhood
• Work, Families, and Child Care
• Fertility, Family, and the Well-Being of Children and Adults

• Policy, the Family, and Human Development

• The Family and Child Development
• Fathers and Child Development
• Child Well-Being and Public Policy
• Transition to Adulthood

• Health and Mortality

• Macro-Level and Family Influences on Health
• Health Disparities

• Population Distribution and Movement

• Immigration and Immigrants
• Internal Migration and Population Distribution
• Population and Environment

• Investments in infrastructure, training, and dissemination
   
• Toward the Future: Current Goals and New Initiatives
   
• Figures
   
• Appendix A: DBSB Infrastructure Support and Training Programs, Fiscal Year 2002
   
• Appendix B: Large Survey Projects Supported by the DBSB, 1998-2002
   
• Appendix C: DBSB Personnel
   
• Appendix D: Branch Solicitations, 1998-2003*
   
• Appendix E: DBSB-Supported Conferences and Workshops, 1998-2002
   
• Appendix F: Interagency Agreements*, 1998-2002
   
• Appendix G: DBSB Activities, 1998-2002
   
• Appendix H: DBSB Awards, 1998-2002
  
   

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health National Institute of Child Health and Human Development June 2003

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