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April 13, 2010
Measuring adult mortality using sibling survival: a new analytical methods and new results for 44 countries, 1974-1996
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A novel analytical technique shows that more adults are dying between the ages of 15 and 60 in developing countries than previously thought, according to new research. Additionally, the new techniques provide a tool for directly measuring the impact of HIV instead of relying solely on theoretical models.

April 13, 2010
Measuring under-five mortality: validation of new low-cost methods
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Research shows that new analytical methods can measure child mortality more accurately and less expensively, enabling policymakers to respond more quickly to pressing public health concerns. The study shows how these new methods can be used to evaluate mortality trends in specific regions, revealing health disparities.

April 13, 2010
What can we conclude from death registration? A new method for evaluating completeness
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Novel techniques can make better use of incomplete vital registration systems for population health studies, according to new research. The study describes an approach to check the completeness and accuracy of databases that compile information from death certificates.

April 12, 2010
Maternal mortality for 181 countries, 1980-2008: a systematic analysis of progress towards Millennium Development Goal 5
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Despite previous estimates of maternal mortality that showed little progress, this study, reveals that maternal deaths fell from more than 500,000 annually to fewer than 350,000 over the past 30 years.

March 31, 2010
The burden of injuries in Iranian children in 2005
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Research shows that more than 44,000 Iranian children under the age of 15 died due to injuries between 2001 and 2006, making injuries the leading cause of death among children in Iran.

March 23, 2010
The promise of prevention: the effects of four preventable risk factors on national life expectancy and life expectancy disparities by race and county in the United States
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Life expectancy in the US is shortened by more than four years because of preventable risk factors such as smoking and being overweight, IHME researchers found.

September 25, 2009
Diabetes prevalence and diagnosis in US states: analysis of health surveys
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The rate of diabetes in the US varies widely state to state, as does the rate of diagnosis, depending in part on which state a person lives in, race, and whether the person has insurance. This is the first study to examine the prevalence of diabetes and the proportion of undiagnosed diabetes state by state.

June 20, 2009
Financing of global health: tracking development assistance for health from 1990 to 2007
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Funding for health in developing countries quadrupled from $5.6 billion in 1990 to $21.8 billion in 2007, with private citizens, private foundations, and non-governmental organizations contributing an increasingly larger percentage of global health funding, research shows.

May 18, 2009
Tracking population health based on self-reported impairments: trends in the prevalence of hearing loss in US adults, 1976-2006
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Research shows that Americans are hearing better today than they were 30 years ago, but progress on reducing hearing loss has slowed.

May 1, 2009
Adverse health outcomes of road traffic injuries in Iran after rapid motorization
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Iran has the highest death rate resulting from road traffic accidents of any country in the world, according to a study conducted by IHME researchers.

April 28, 2009
The preventable causes of death in the United States: comparative risk assessment of dietary, lifestyle, and metabolic risk factors
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Smoking, high blood pressure, and being overweight or obese are responsible for the largest number of preventable deaths in the United States, research shows.

April 9, 2009
Public policy for the poor? A randomised assessment of the Mexican universal health insurance programme
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Research shows that 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.

March 4, 2009
How does satisfaction with the health care system relate to patient experience?
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A patient’s satisfaction with the health care system depends more on factors external to the system than the patient’s actual health care experience, research shows.

January 29, 2009
Limitations of methods for measuring out-of-pocket and catastrophic private health expenditures
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The financial burden of out-of-pocket health spending is hampered by inconsistent survey methods, research shows.

December 13, 2008
Tracking progress towards universal childhood immunisation and the impact of global initiatives: a systematic analysis of three-dose diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis immunisation coverage
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Research conducted at IHME examines the number of children receiving diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis (DTP3) immunizations in 193 countries from 1986 to 2006.

September 17, 2008
Understanding the decline of mean systolic blood pressure in Japan: an analysis of pooled data from the National Nutrition Survey, 1986-2002
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According to new research, declining mean systolic blood pressure (SBP) in Japan between 1986 and 2002 could be attributed to the increased use of antihypertensive medications, particularly among older adults, and lowered mean body mass index (BMI) in young women.

September 2, 2008
Estimating the distribution of external causes in hospital data from injury diagnosis
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Research into a novel application of Bayesian inference shows that this method demonstrates considerable success in estimating the number of hospital admissions due to external causes based on injury diagnosis.

June 20, 2008
Fifty years of violent war deaths from Vietnam to Bosnia: analysis of data from the world health survey programme
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War causes more deaths than previously estimated, according by researchers at IHME and Harvard Medical School.

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

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