In addition to the inherent importance of education and its essential role in economic growth, education and health are strongly related. We updated previous systematic assessments of educational attainment, and estimated the contribution of improvements in women’s education to reductions in child mortality in the past 40 years.
September 18, 2010
Research Article
August 17, 2010
Research Article
Bed net distribution and use has expanded rapidly across Africa, especially in countries that have received significant health aid for malaria prevention efforts, research shows. The study makes use of an innovative statistical tool that could have broader application in other public health settings.
June 7, 2010
Policy Report
This detailed report includes data on mortality trends for more than 180 countries over two decades. Researchers at IHME, working in collaboration with researchers at the University of Queensland, gathered vital registration data, censuses, surveys, and other sources to create datasets that were more than twice as large as those available for previous studies on maternal and child mortality.
June 6, 2010
Research Article
A program in India that pays women to give birth in a health facility appears to be saving newborns’ lives and lowering the number of stillbirths, as demonstrated by research conducted by IHME.
May 24, 2010
Research Article
Mortality in children younger than 5 years is falling in every region of the world, dropping from 11.9 million deaths in 1990 to 7.7 million deaths in 2010, according to research by IHME. These figures represent a 35% reduction in under-5 mortality within 10 years, a rate of decline that was faster than expected.
April 30, 2010
Research Article
The most comprehensive assessment to date of global adult mortality shows how health disparities among countries and between men and women are widening around the world.
April 13, 2010
Research Article
Research shows that new analytical methods can measure child mortality more accurately and less expensively, enabling policymakers to respond more quickly to pressing public health concerns. The study shows how these new methods can be used to evaluate mortality trends in specific regions, revealing health disparities.
March 31, 2010
Research Article
Research shows that more than 44,000 Iranian children under the age of 15 died due to injuries between 2001 and 2006, making injuries the leading cause of death among children in Iran.
May 1, 2009
Research Article
Iran has the highest death rate resulting from road traffic accidents of any country in the world, according to a study conducted by IHME researchers.
December 13, 2008
Research Article
Research conducted at IHME examines the number of children receiving diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis (DTP3) immunizations in 193 countries from 1986 to 2006.
June 20, 2008
Research Article
War causes more deaths than previously estimated, according by researchers at IHME and Harvard Medical School.
April 22, 2008
Research Article
Despite gains in overall life expectancy in the United States between 1961 and 1999, the life expectancy of a significant segment of the population is actually declining or, at best, stagnating, according to new research.
September 22, 2007
Research Article
Research shows that for the world as a whole, there has been little improvement in the reduction of child mortality within the last three decades.