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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).

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