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Leading representatives from government and international organizations – including the World Bank, the World Health Organization (WHO), the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) – are meeting this week in Tokyo to discuss building the health systems of the future.

The global toll taken by injuries on daily life has fallen by almost a third in the past quarter of a century, reveals research published online in the journal Injury Prevention.

China has made enormous strides in health over the course of the past three decades, including a significant drop in child mortality, a leap in life expectancy, and a sizeable shift in the pattern of causes of death. But these gains are not shared equally among China’s provinces, some of which have health records similar to many developing countries, while others resemble the United States or Western Europe.

Le Dr Agnes Binagwaho, pédiatre de formation et ministre de la Santé du Rwanda, est la deuxième personnalité à remporter le prix Roux, une récompense de 100 000 USD pour avoir utiliser des faits établis dans le cadre de l’amélioration de la santé. C’est le plus important prix de ce genre au niveau international. Le Dr Binagwaho a utilisé les données du Global Burden of Disease (GBD, charge mondiale de morbidité) et les résultats recueillis grâce aux efforts de son propre ministère pour s’assurer que les ressources limitées du pays sauvent le plus de vies possible et diminuent les souffrances de la population. 

The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington, US, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, to generate state-level disease burden and risk factor estimates to improve health programs and planning in India.

The most detailed mapping of malaria to date shows tremendous progress over the past two decades in sub-Saharan Africa and the promise of fewer infections and deaths in the years to come, according to a new study published in the journal Nature.

Fewer Americans are dying from diseases attributable to high systolic blood pressure and high total cholesterol, but more lives are being claimed by ailments associated with high body mass index, high fasting plasma glucose, and smoking, according to a new analysis of 79 risks in 188 countries.

People around the world are living longer, even in some of the poorest countries, but a complex mix of fatal and nonfatal ailments cause a tremendous amount of health loss, according to a new analysis of all major diseases and injuries in 188 countries.

People across the US are living longer but spending more time in ill health as rates of nonfatal diseases and injuries – including low back pain, major depressive disorder, and diabetes – decline more slowly than death rates, according to a new analysis of 301 acute and chronic diseases and injuries in 188 countries.

New cases of virtually all types of cancer are rising in countries globally – regardless of income – but the death rates from cancer are falling in many countries, according to a new analysis of 28 cancer groups in 188 countries.

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) released groundbreaking research on educational attainment worldwide on Friday, May 1, at the Population Association of America 2015 Annual Meeting, which draws demographers, sociologists, economists, and public health professionals from all over the world.

Published in April 2015, Epic Measures: One Doctor, Seven Billion Patients tells the story of IHME Director Christopher Murray’s quest to gain a truer understanding of how we live and how we die.