IHME in the news

Read what major media outlets are saying about our work.
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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).

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Compare your life expectancy with others around the world

“There’s not one population globally that we have data on that has reduced obesity, which is a pretty bad scorecard,” said Christopher Murray, director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington.

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A new vaccine will change the balance of the fight against meningitis

“There’s not one population globally that we have data on that has reduced obesity, which is a pretty bad scorecard,” said Christopher Murray, director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington.

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Silent killer: How deadly is air pollution?

According to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington in Seattle, air pollution is the fourth-leading cause of mortality among all metabolic and behavioural risk factors, after high systolic blood pressure, tobacco use and dietary risks.

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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.

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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.

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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.”

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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