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The rate in the US is eight times greater than in Canada, which has the seventh highest rate of gun ownership in the world; 22 times higher than in the European Union and 23 times greater than in Australia, according to Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation data from 2019.

According to the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, in the first two years of the pandemic women were twice as likely as men to develop long COVID, and 15% of all of those affected at three months continued to experience symptoms beyond 12 months.

Globally, low back pain is a leading cause of years lived with disability, with neck pain coming in at No. 4, according to the 2016 Global Burden of Disease Study.

“Omicron has been able to evade past immunity and infect you, but fortunately not necessarily cause severe disease and death,” said Christopher Murray, the director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington School of Medicine.

In Europe, the combined number of police killings and state executions remains in the single digits each year in many countries, according to data from the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). The US’s annual rate of police killings and state executions, with more than 1,000 deaths a year, is more comparable to Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, Cameroon, Libya and Sudan, according to IHME data.

“Hopkins filled a gap that nobody else was able to do,” Ali Mokdad, a professor of health metrics sciences at University of Washington’s IHME. “So all of us, reporters, us in academia, we went to Hopkins to get the data.”

It’s been awhile since we’ve invoked the term “grim milestone,” but the occasion calls for it: The number of reported coronavirus cases in California now exceeds 12 million. That figure would have seemed unthinkable early in the pandemic, when we struggled to believe that the COVID-19 forecasting tool from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation was accurate in projecting that the number of cases could reach 1 million.

In 2019, more than 10 million people died from cancer around the world, making it the second leading cause of death after cardiovascular diseases, according to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME).

El estudio está basado en el uso masivo de datos y se fundamenta, en parte, en estimaciones de mortalidad modeladas por el proyecto Global Burden of Disease, puesto que muchas de las poblaciones incluidas no tienen información demográfica directa sobre la mortalidad, precisa Ikerbasque en una nota de prensa.

The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study in 2019 reported that diabetes ranked as the third leading cause of death in Indonesia.

“What these findings tell us is that Pakistan’s baseline before being hit by extreme flooding was already at some of the lowest levels around the globe,” said Dr. Ali Mokdad, Professor of Health Metrics Sciences at IHME. “Pakistan is in critical need of a more equitable investment in its health system and policy interventions to save lives and improve people’s health.”

The Lunar New Year Holiday, which starts Jan. 21 and involves millions of people traveling to their hometowns, could increase its spread, said Ali Mokdad, a professor at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation and chief strategy officer for population health at the University of Washington.  

Além do ISGlobal, conta com a participação de cientistas da Escola de Medicina Tropical e Higiene de Londres, da Universidade da Cidade de NY (Cuny), em Nova York, e do Instituto de Métricas e Avaliação em Saúde (IHME), da Universidade de Washington, entre outros.

Expertos de Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) de la Universidad de Washington dijeron que las enfermedades cardiovasculares y la diabetes están entre los 10 problemas de salud que más preocupan este año.

“We do not expect a major increase in hospitalizations from this variant since it is similar to the previous ones,” said Ali Mokdad, a professor of health metrics sciences at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, in an email.