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The number of women dying from pregnancy-related causes has dropped by more than 35% in the past 30 years – from more than a half-million deaths annually in 1980 to about 343,000 in 2008, according to a new study by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington and collaborators at the University of Queensland.

A study by researchers at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) and Harvard University has been named the best open-access medical paper of the past five years by the journal PLoS Medicine.

Well-heeled donors, private corporations and average citizens sending money to their favorite charities are changing the landscape of global health funding, according to a new study by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington.

Mexico’s recent health reforms appear to have considerably reduced catastrophic and out-of-pocket health spending on both inpatient and outpatient medical procedures, especially among the poor, according to a new study published in The Lancet by a team of researchers—including two scientists from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington. Known as Seguro Popular, the program reduced the proportion of poorer households that suffered from catastrophic health expenditures from 9.9 to 6.9 percent—a significant reduction that translates into major savings for thousands of Mexican families.

One of the major aims of the US health system is improving the health of all people, particularly those segments of the population at greater risk of health disparities. In fact, overall life expectancy in the US increased more than seven years for men and more than six years for women between 1960 and 2000.