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The commitment to health by country governments in the developing world has grown dramatically over the last two decades, according to a new study by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington and Harvard Medical School. Overall domestic government spending on health doubled in low-income countries over 12 years to reach $18 billion in 2006, the study shows.

Health reform in the US could fall far short of its promise if critical steps aren’t taken to make improvements that are measureable, impactful, and local, say the authors of a groundbreaking study that ranked the US health care system 37th in the world.

Americans are hearing better today than they were 30 years ago, but progress on reducing hearing loss has slowed, according to a new study.

Well-heeled donors, private corporations and average citizens sending money to their favorite charities are changing the landscape of global health funding, according to a new study by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington.

Well-heeled donors, private corporations and average citizens sending money to their favorite charities are changing the landscape of global health funding, according to a new study by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington.

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, according to a new study published in The Lancet by a team of researchers—including two scientists from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington. Known as Seguro Popular, the program reduced the proportion of poorer households that suffered from catastrophic health expenditures from 9.9 to 6.9 percent—a significant reduction that translates into major savings for thousands of Mexican families.

For many families in the developing world out-of-pocket health spending is a huge financial burden, but measuring the extent of that burden is being hampered by inconsistent survey methods, according to a new study recently published in the WHO Bulletin by lead author Chunling Lu of Harvard Medical School and senior author Dr. Christopher Murray of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at University of Washington.

A new study by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington reveals troubling gaps between the number of children reported by countries to be immunized and numbers based on independent surveys in countries receiving aid money from the Global Alliance on Vaccines and Immunisations (GAVI) Immunisations Services Support (ISS) program.

The University of Washington (UW) announced today the creation of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, a new research center that will conduct independent, rigorous evaluations of health programs worldwide.