Jump to navigation

  • IHME
  • GHDx
  • GBD Compare
Home
Main menu
  • Home
  • Results
    • GBD Results Tool
    • Data Visualizations
    • Country Profiles
    • GBD 2019 Cause and Risk Summaries
    • US Health
    • Policy Reports
    • Research Articles
    • Infographics
    • Topics
    • Data & Tools
  • News & Events
    • News
    • Commentaries
    • Events
    • Videos
    • Acting on Data
      • IHME Foundations
  • Projects
    • COVID-19 resources
    • Global Burden of Disease (GBD)
    • Center for Health Trends and Forecasts (CHTF)
    • Disease Control Priorities Network (DCPN)
    • View all
  • Get Involved
    • Donate
    • Careers
    • Call for Collaborators
    • The Roux Prize
    • Murray-Lopez Award
    • Online Training
    • Workshops
  • About
    • Our Principles
    • Racism is a public health issue.
    • Senior Management Team
    • Faculty
    • Governance
    • History
    • GHDx
    • Terms and Conditions
    • Contact Us

Explore section

Local Burden of Disease

  • Home
  • About the project
  • Potential impact
  • Data and Downloads
  • Data Visualizations
  • News & Events
  • Publications
  • Infographics
  • Videos
  • FAQ

The potential impact of local estimates


There are many ways that researchers and health officials could utilize local health estimates and mapping, but the most important potential application is, perhaps, as a tool for “precision public health.” 

Precision public health has been described in detail elsewhere. In short, it is the aspirational idea that public health solutions can, in the near future, be designed, delivered, and evaluated at the local level. Having locally accurate health estimates is a key part of realizing the precision public health vision. 

With local information, for example, a country’s health officials could tailor health solutions to each state, district, or even town within that country instead of adopting a one-size-fits-all approach to solving its health problems. They could take into account local medical, infrastructural, and cultural conditions when planning health interventions – and do so for every corner of their country. 

These kinds of precision public health practices are not yet happening everywhere, but they are happening on a small scale in locations around the world, with positive results. If we invest more in the tools and infrastructure to support precision public health, the potential payoff in health improvement is immense.  

Health-related maps will be an important tool for precision public health. They will allow health officials to track, target, and treat health problems in unprecedented ways. Some of those ways could be: 

Because there are so many ways in which health is affected by geography, the potential uses for local health estimation and mapping are both numerous and highly impactful. That wide potential for application means that local health estimation and mapping have the potential to improve health interventions, reduce inequities, and help all people – irrespective of where they’re from – live longer, healthier lives.

Jump to:

  • About the Local Burden of Disease project
  • The IHME Local Burden of Disease team

Local Burden of Disease

  • Home
  • About the project
  • Potential impact
  • Data and Downloads
  • Data Visualizations
  • News & Events
  • Publications
  • Infographics
  • Videos
  • FAQ

Sign up for IHME News

Stay connected

     

IHME

Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

Population Health Building/Hans Rosling Center

3980 15th Ave. NE, Seattle, WA 98195

UW Campus Box #351615

Tel: +1-206-897-2800

Fax: +1-206-897-2899

© 2020 University of Washington

  • Privacy policy
  • Login

  • Home
  • Results
    • GBD Results Tool
    • Data Visualizations
    • Country Profiles
    • GBD 2019 Cause and Risk Summaries
    • US Health
    • Policy Reports
    • Research Articles
    • Infographics
    • Topics
    • Data & Tools
  • News & Events
    • News
    • Commentaries
    • Events
    • Videos
    • Acting on Data
  • Projects
    • COVID-19 resources
    • Global Burden of Disease (GBD)
    • Center for Health Trends and Forecasts (CHTF)
    • Disease Control Priorities Network (DCPN)
    • View all
  • Get Involved
    • Donate
    • Careers
    • Call for Collaborators
    • The Roux Prize
    • Murray-Lopez Award
    • Online Training
    • Workshops
  • About
    • Our Principles
    • Racism is a public health issue.
    • Senior Management Team
    • Faculty
    • Governance
    • History
    • GHDx
    • Terms and Conditions
    • Contact Us

Projects

  • Global Burden of Disease (GBD)
  • Disease Control Priorities Network (DCPN)
  • ABCE+: A Focus on Antiretroviral Therapy (ART)
  • Access, Bottlenecks, Costs, and Equity (ABCE)
  • Efficacy to Effectiveness
  • Viral Load Pilot
  • Salud Mesoamérica Initiative
  • Improving Methods to Measure Comparable Mortality by Cause
  • Verbal Autopsy (VA)
  • Disease Expenditure (DEX)
  • Local Burden of Disease
  • State-level disease burden initiative in India
  • US Counties Drivers of Health Study
  • University of Washington Center for Health Trends and Forecasts