IHME in the news
Read what major media outlets are saying about our work.El secreto mejor guardado de Ourense: sus centenarios son los más longevos del mundo
Actualmente, España ocupa el quinto lugar de los países con mayor esperanza de vida, con un 83,5%. Proyecciones pasadas, como la del Instituto para la Métrica y Evaluación de la Salud, que recoge el Foro Económico Global, situaron a España como el país con más longevo del mundo en 2040.
Parece que todo el mundo tiene covid-19. He aquí por qué esta oleada es probablemente peor de lo que sugieren los datos oficiales
Entre 2020 y 2022, el Instituto de Métricas y Evaluación Sanitarias de la Universidad de Washington (IHME, por sus siglas en inglés) elaboró estimaciones periódicas de las tasas de casos de covid-19 y proyecciones de tendencias.
1 billion people worldwide will suffer from arthritis by 2050
“With the key drivers of people living longer and a growing world population, we need to anticipate stress on health systems in most countries,” said study author Dr. Jaimie Steinmetz, lead research scientist at Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) in Seattle.
Long Covid symptoms create a greater burden of disability than heart disease or cancer, new study shows
That means long Covid creates a higher burden of disability than either heart disease or cancer, which cause about 52 and 50 DALYs for every 1,000 Americans, respectively, according to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation’s Global Burden of Disease study.
Opinion: Want to fix America’s maternal health crisis? Here’s where to start.
A paper published in JAMA in July found that more than twice the number of people in the United States are dying of pregnancy-related causes than 20 years ago.
A coronavirus mystery: Why New York was hit so much harder than L.A. County
One analysis comparing state-level pandemic policies, published in the journal The Lancet, suggested state governments’ use of protective mandates was associated with a reduction in their cumulative coronavirus infection rates.
Racial and ethnic health disparities are pervasive in the US, across most causes of death and in most counties, new study shows
“When you look across these 19 causes, there are racial and ethnic disparities in mortality and there are also geographic disparities in mortality for every single cause,” said Laura Dwyer-Lindgren, an assistant professor at the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation and study author. “The consistency of that overall finding – that these huge disparities are always there – really stuck out to me.”
Why anemia is highly prevalent among women in the global South
According to a recent study published in The Lancet Hematology, in 2021, the leading cause of anemia globally was dietary iron deficiency (66.2% of all anemia cases).
States of healthcare
States of healthcare: Data from Global Burden of Disease study will help states chart their individual trajectories. They need to strengthen disease monitoring systems
US maternal deaths more than doubled over two decades in unequal proportions for race and geography
Bryant and her colleagues at Mass General Brigham and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington started with national vital statistics data on deaths and live births.
Nearly 36 million in Europe may have experienced long COVID, World Health Organization official says
Statistics from University of Washington researchers indicate that about one in 30 of the region's residents have experienced “long COVID.” in the past three years, Kluge said.
Naps are healthy, scientists say – so why has Spain given up on the siesta?
The study, by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation in Seattle, suggested that people in Spain will have an average lifespan of 85.8 years by 2040, while those in Japan will lag ever so slightly behind on 85.7 years.
More than 1.3 billion people worldwide predicted to have diabetes by 2050
“If we don’t do anything,” said Kanyin Liane Ong, a researcher at the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation and the lead author of the study, “it will cause a huge burden.”
Urgent action is needed on alcohol harm in Nigeria
Alcohol is responsible for three million deaths each year globally, and accounts for more than five per cent of global burden of disease as measured by disability adjusted life years (DALYs), a health metric that combines healthy years of life lost due to mortality and disability.
Nigeria is 8th world’s most polluted country, says report
Taking the top spot for the world’s biggest cause of death in 2019 was high blood pressure (10.85 million), which was closely followed by smoking (7.69million), according to a Global Burden of Disease study published in The Lancet.