IHME in the news

“Although we’ve observed excellent strides in contraceptive availability since the 1970s at a global level, there’s still a long way to go to ensure that every woman and adolescent girl can benefit from the economic and social empowerment contraceptives can offer,” said Dr Annie Haakenstad, of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington.

Modeling studies by researchers at the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation estimate the official counts include only 14% of actual infections.

Actual infection numbers in the United States in the first week of July were about seven times higher than reported cases, suggested an estimate from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. 

Suicide is a leading cause of death among children and adults, with nearly 800,000 people worldwide dying from suicide yearly, according to the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017.

“Even the cases that are being detected are not being reported as frequently as they used to be,” said Ali H. Mokdad, professor of health metrics sciences at the university’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. “In many states, many counties, it’s only once a week.”

“Our message is simple: Young people should not drink, but older people may benefit from drinking small amounts. While it may not be realistic to think young adults will abstain from drinking, we do think it’s important to communicate the latest evidence so that everyone can make informed decisions about their health," says senior author Dr. Emmanuela Gakidou, professor of health metrics sciences at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington's School of Medicine.

“Our message is simple: Young people should not drink, but older people may benefit from drinking small amounts," said Emmanuela Gakidou, University of Washington professor of health metrics sciences at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation in a news release. "While it may not be realistic to think young adults will abstain from drinking, we do think it’s important to communicate the latest evidence so that everyone can make informed decisions about their health.”

Emmanuela Gakidou, profesora de Ciencias de las Métricas de Salud de la Universidad de Washington y coordinadora del trabajo, resume su mensaje: “La gente joven no debería beber, pero la mayor puede beneficiarse de beber pequeñas cantidades. Aunque no es realista pensar que los jóvenes se abstengan de beber, creemos que es importante comunicar la última evidencia científica para que cada uno tome decisiones informadas sobre su salud”, concluye.

"Those diseases just happen to be major causes of death in a good chunk of the world," said senior author Emmanuela Gakidou, professor of health metrics sciences at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington's School of Medicine.

"These are not the real numbers because many people are not reporting cases," Dr. Ali Mokdad, an epidemiologist with the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation in Seattle, told ABC News.

Covid has subsided as a major cause of death in recent months in much of the world, even in places with low vaccination rates, because so many people have already been infected and the latest mutation of the virus hasn't proven to be particularly deadly, said Christopher Murray, the director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington.

In the real world, people wear masks more often when cases are surging, said the institute’s Ali Mokdad, and 2021′s delta wave without vaccines would have prompted a major policy response. “We may disagree on the number as scientists, but we all agree that COVID vaccines saved lots of lives,” Mokdad said.

According to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), University of Washington School of Medicine analysis, published in JAMA journal, December 30, 2021, the growth rates are among the global highest.

It was published by a group of researchers from various universities across the globe, and from the Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD), a collaboration of over 3,600 researchers from 145 countries.

Mask use in Japan has typically held above 90%, a threshold other G-7 countries have only occasionally neared, according to Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation data.