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Un estudio del 2018 elaborado por The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation estimó que en México existen más de 49 mil fallecimientos anuales atribuibles a la contaminación ambiental.
Cardiovascular disease remains leading cause of death globally: Study
The new Global Burden of Disease (GBD) special report published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology provides an update of health estimates for the global, regional and national burden and trends of CVD from 1990-2022.
Vulnerable Americans are going into the holiday season without COVID-19 protections
“My concern for COVID-19 is that we’re not ready for any variants that this virus will produce,” said Ali Mokdad, a professor of health metrics sciences and chief strategy officer for population health at the University of Washington.
Covid drives hospitalizations across the country as winter virus season ramps up
Ali Mokdad, chief strategy officer for population health at the University of Washington, said that while it may be alarming to see new variants take hold going into the winter, he isn’t too worried about what he’s seen so far.
Más de 5 millones de personas mueren al año en todo el mundo por la mala calidad del aire
Consideraron datos de mortalidad extraídos del estudio Global Burden of Disease 2019, estadísticas de población y partículas finas basadas en observaciones satelitales de la NASA y modelos de química atmosférica, aerosoles y riesgo relativo.
These 117 Spots Need Urgent Action To Reduce Accidents
As per Global Burden of Disease 2016, road injuries were the eighth leading cause of death in India that year, rising by 22.5% over the situation in 2015, according to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.
Patients with chronic joint & muscle disorders to increase by 115 % by 2050
The projected figure of musculoskeletal disorder cases is an increase of about 115 per cent from that of 2020, and most regions were projected to have at least a 50 per cent increase in cases between 2020 and 2050, the international study by The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, US, found.
Commentary: The global antibiotic pipeline is running dry. How can Singapore spur new drug development?
Commentary: The global antibiotic pipeline is running dry. How can Singapore spur new drug development?
A new study says the global toll of lead exposure is even worse than we thought
The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD), conducted by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington, finds high blood pressure due to lead exposure caused an estimated 850,000 deaths in 2019.
La demografía y la innovación: claves para el futuro de las relaciones empresariales entre Japón y España
Unas previsiones, realizadas en el 2022, por el Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation de Estados Unidos, y con todas las cautelas que las previsiones requieren, dibujan un escenario un tanto preocupante, tanto para Japón como para España, al enfrentarse ambos a una reducción drástica de su población para el año 2100, que disminuiría a la mitad en comparación con 2017.
Tom Frieden: Covid-19 is still around, and so are these misconceptions
Three independent analyses — by the World Health Organization, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation and the Economist — come to a similar conclusion, that within the first three years globally, more than a million people died in the US and 20 million people died globally in excess of trends.
Can governments successfully adapt to demographic disparities?
Incentives such as free child care may spur more births, but not enough to reverse the trend, says Christopher J.L. Murray, director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) in Seattle.
Public health expert, Abubakar, wins Roux Prize 2023
The Roux Prize, awarded by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington’s School of Medicine, is a beacon of recognition for individuals, who leverage evidence-based health data to improve population health.
Introducing the Pandemic Recovery Survey
Meta and its partners — the University of Maryland, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) — designed the Pandemic Recovery Survey to equip public health leaders, academic researchers, and NGOs with data and insights to inform pandemic response across the areas of health, education, and economic recovery.
Mental health: The invisible effects of neglected tropical diseases
The influential Global Burden of Disease (GBD) database, managed by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington in Seattle, assesses the burden of diseases in terms of a metric called disability-adjusted life years (DALYs).