An innovative program in India that pays women to give birth in a health facility appears to be saving newborns’ lives and lowering the number of stillbirths, according to new research from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) and the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI).
2010
May 24, 2010
News Release
Worldwide mortality in children younger than 5 years has dropped from 11.9 million deaths in 1990 to 7.7 million deaths in 2010, a rate of decline that is faster than expected, according to new research from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington.
April 29, 2010
News Release
Women’s health is improving faster than men’s, and high-income countries such as the US trail countries that spend less on health care, including Costa Rica, Tunisia, and Albania.
April 12, 2010
News Release
The number of women dying from pregnancy-related causes has dropped by more than 35% in the past 30 years – from more than a half-million deaths annually in 1980 to about 343,000 in 2008, according to a new study by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington and collaborators at the University of Queensland.
April 9, 2010
News Release
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.
January 6, 2010
News Release
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.
2009
October 20, 2009
Announcement
A study by researchers at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) and Harvard University has been named the best open-access medical paper of the past five years by the journal PLoS Medicine.
July 6, 2009
News Release
Americans are hearing better today than they were 30 years ago, but progress on reducing hearing loss has slowed, according to a new study.
June 18, 2009
News Release
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.
June 18, 2009
News Release
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.
April 9, 2009
News Release
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.
March 4, 2009
News Release
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.
2008
December 12, 2008
Global childhood immunization coverage growing at only half the officially reported rate, IHME study
News Release
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.
April 21, 2008
News Release
One of the major aims of the US health system is improving the health of all people, particularly those segments of the population at greater risk of health disparities. In fact, overall life expectancy in the US increased more than seven years for men and more than six years for women between 1960 and 2000.
April 9, 2008
Announcement
Open house tour of Institute set for Wednesday, April 9, followed by two-day research conference to be held Thursday and Friday, April 10- 11, 2008.
2007
June 4, 2007
Announcement
Center will be supported by new Gates Foundation grant and led by world-renowned health expert
June 1, 2007
News Release
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.