Social Determinants of Health Visualization

ABOUT THE TOOL

The Social Determinants of Health visualization tool allows you to explore the relationships between social determinants and health indicators across countries. This first release presents educational attainment for people over the age of 15 for the years 1970 to 2015 by country, year, sex, and age group. Age-standardized and population-weighted estimates are included for females aged 15 to 44 years and for both sexes for the age group 25+. Additional determinants and indicators will be added to the tool in subsequent releases.

These data are also presented in the IHME policy report A Hand Up: Global Progress Toward Universal Education. Data may be downloaded at http://ghdx.healthdata.org/record/global-educational-attainment-1970-2015.

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ABOUT THE DATA

• Maternal mortality ratio (MMR) is defined as the number of maternal deaths per 100,000 live births. A maternal death, as opposed to a pregnancy-related death, is one for which the pregnancy is considered causal; accidental or incidental mortality is not included. The full methods and results are described in this publication: Kassebaum, Nicholas J., et al. Global, regional, and national levels and causes of maternal mortality during 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013. The Lancet. 2014; 384(9947):980-1004.
• The probability of death from birth to age 5 (5q0) was estimated as part of the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2013 study and published in The Lancet in 2014 in the article: “Global, regional, and national levels of neonatal, infant, and under-5 mortality during 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013.” Sex-specific and both-sex estimates were generated for 188 countries, 21 GBD regions, 7 GBD super-regions, and the global aggregate.
• The probability of death from age 15 to age 60 (45q15) was estimated as part of the Global Burden of Disease 2013 study and published in The Lancet in the 2014 article “Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific all-cause and cause-specific mortality for 240 causes of death, 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013.” Sex-specific and both-sex estimates were generated for 188 countries, 21 GBD regions, 7 GBD super-regions, and the global aggregate.
• Life expectancy at birth, or the expected number of years of life to be lived by a person based on mortality rates present at the time of their birth, was estimated as part of the Global Burden of Disease 2013 study and published in The Lancet in the 2014 article “Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific all-cause and cause-specific mortality for 240 causes of death, 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013.” Sex-specific and both-sex estimates were generated for 188 countries, 21 GBD regions, 7 GBD super-regions, and the global aggregate.
• The estimates of diarrheal diseases and lower respiratory infections consist of the case incidence of each for children under 5 by country for 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010, and 2013.
• LDI is defined as lag distributed income per capita (I$): gross domestic product per capita that has been smoothed over the preceding 10 years.

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