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June 17, 2008
Coverage of cervical cancer screening in 57 countries: low average levels and large inequalities
Research Article

Cervical cancer is a leading cause of mortality worldwide, and research shows that effective coverage of cervical cancer screening is lacking, particularly in developing countries.

April 22, 2008
The reversal of fortunes: trends in county mortality and cross-county mortality disparities in the United States
Research Article

Despite gains in overall life expectancy in the United States between 1961 and 1999, the life expectancy of a significant segment of the population is actually declining or, at best, stagnating, according to new research.

March 5, 2008
Has the DOTS strategy improved case finding or treatment success? An empirical assessment
Research Article

The impact of the adoption of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) DOTS (directly observed therapy, short-course) tuberculosis control strategy in 187 WHO member states has been investigated using a novel approach.

February 19, 2008
Trends and cardiovascular mortality effects of state-level blood pressure and uncontrolled hypertension in the United States
Research Article

Research shows that women suffer more from uncontrolled hypertension than men in every state, with the greatest prevalence of uncontrolled hypertension in the Southern United States.

December 15, 2007
Prevention of cardiovascular disease in high-risk individuals in low-income and middle-income countries: health effects and costs
Research Article

Treatment of individuals in low-income and middle-income countries at high risk for cardiovascular disease with a preventive multidrug regimen could prevent almost a fifth of all deaths from cardiovascular disease, research shows.

November 20, 2007
Estimating population cause-specific mortality fractions from in-hospital mortality: validation of a new method
Research Article

Researchers at IHME propose a method of estimating cause-specific mortality fractions (CSMFs), or the fraction of all deaths due to a specific cause.

November 20, 2007
Validation of the symptom pattern method for analyzing verbal autopsy data
Research Article

Research published in PLoS Medicine  in November 2007 validated a novel method for analyzing verbal autopsy data (the symptom pattern method, developed at IHME) and found that this method outperformed another common verbal autopsy analytical method (physician-coded verbal autopsy, or PCVA).

September 22, 2007
Can we achieve Millennium Development Goal 4? New analysis of country trends and forecasts of under-5 mortality to 2015
Research Article

Research shows that for the world as a whole, there has been little improvement in the reduction of child mortality within the last three decades. 

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