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Low back pain remains the leading cause of disability globally

IHME Employee blog: Emma Castro, Researcher, Evaluations

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Honoring Deaf History Month: a conversation with researcher Lydia Haile

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Chronic respiratory disease is third leading cause of death globally

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Cover of the Financing Global Health 2021 report.

New health financing research

The Financing Global Health 2021 report, the latest in the series, expands on, and adds new estimates to, topics like pandemic preparedness, future health spending, and development assistance for health.
COVID-19 resources

COVID-19 resources

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Visualize antimicrobial resistance data

Introducing the MICROBE interactive data visual, showing our estimates by organ system, pathogen, and resistance to treatment.
Research Article
May 22, 2023
Global, regional, and national burden of low back pain, 1990–2020, its attributable risk factors, and projections to 2050

Low back pain remains the leading cause of disability globally, and in 2020, there were more than half a billion prevalent cases of low back pain worldwide.

Research Article
May 12, 2023
Effect of air pollution on disease burden, mortality, and life expectancy in North Africa and the Middle East

We found that if air pollution had been lowered to the theoretical minimum risk exposure levels for 2019, then the average life expectancy would have been 1·6 years higher.

Research Article
April 25, 2023
Global burden of chronic respiratory diseases and risk factors, 1990–2019: an update from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

We estimated mortality, years lived with disability, years of life lost, disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), prevalence, and incidence of chronic respiratory diseases, including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), asthma, pneumoconiosis, interstitial lung disease, and pulmonary sarcoidosis.

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