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The Roux Prize, awarded by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington’s School of Medicine, is a beacon of recognition for individuals, who leverage evidence-based health data to improve population health.

Meta and its partners — the University of Maryland, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) — designed the Pandemic Recovery Survey to equip public health leaders, academic researchers, and NGOs with data and insights to inform pandemic response across the areas of health, education, and economic recovery.

The influential Global Burden of Disease (GBD) database, managed by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington in Seattle, assesses the burden of diseases in terms of a metric called disability-adjusted life years (DALYs).

These findings are somewhat alarming considering that poor air quality from particulate matter is the sixth leading cause of global excess deaths annually, as reported by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.

“There’s not one population globally that we have data on that has reduced obesity, which is a pretty bad scorecard,” said Christopher Murray, director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington.

“There’s not one population globally that we have data on that has reduced obesity, which is a pretty bad scorecard,” said Christopher Murray, director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington.

According to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington in Seattle, air pollution is the fourth-leading cause of mortality among all metabolic and behavioural risk factors, after high systolic blood pressure, tobacco use and dietary risks.

In 2020, researchers at the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation predicted that the global fertility rate would hit below 1.7 by the end of the century.

Actualmente, España ocupa el quinto lugar de los países con mayor esperanza de vida, con un 83,5%. Proyecciones pasadas, como la del Instituto para la Métrica y Evaluación de la Salud, que recoge el Foro Económico Global, situaron a España como el país con más longevo del mundo en 2040.

Entre 2020 y 2022, el Instituto de Métricas y Evaluación Sanitarias de la Universidad de Washington (IHME, por sus siglas en inglés) elaboró estimaciones periódicas de las tasas de casos de covid-19 y proyecciones de tendencias.

“With the key drivers of people living longer and a growing world population, we need to anticipate stress on health systems in most countries,” said study author Dr. Jaimie Steinmetz, lead research scientist at Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) in Seattle.

That means long Covid creates a higher burden of disability than either heart disease or cancer, which cause about 52 and 50 DALYs for every 1,000 Americans, respectively, according to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation’s Global Burden of Disease study.

A paper published in JAMA in July found that more than twice the number of people in the United States are dying of pregnancy-related causes than 20 years ago.

One analysis comparing state-level pandemic policies, published in the journal The Lancet, suggested state governments’ use of protective mandates was associated with a reduction in their cumulative coronavirus infection rates.

“When you look across these 19 causes, there are racial and ethnic disparities in mortality and there are also geographic disparities in mortality for every single cause,” said Laura Dwyer-Lindgren, an assistant professor at the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation and study author. “The consistency of that overall finding – that these huge disparities are always there – really stuck out to me.”