This detailed report includes data on mortality trends for more than 180 countries over two decades. Researchers at IHME, working in collaboration with researchers at the University of Queensland, gathered vital registration data, censuses, surveys, and other sources to create datasets that were more than twice as large as those available for previous studies on maternal and child mortality.
IHME's policy report Building Momentum: Global Progress Toward Reducing Maternal and Child Mortality shows that since 1990, the annualized rate of decline in the maternal mortality ratio has been 1.3%, but rates of change in the maternal mortality ratio vary widely across countries.
Updated data from IHME's policy report Building Momentum: Global Progress Toward Reducing Maternal and Child Mortality show that the regions with the highest under-5 mortality rate are concentrated in the developing world.
A 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, as demonstrated by research conducted by IHME.
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).
Mortality in children younger than 5 years is falling in every region of the world, dropping from 11.9 million deaths in 1990 to 7.7 million deaths in 2010, according to research by IHME. These figures represent a 35% reduction in under-5 mortality within 10 years, a rate of decline that was faster than expected.
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.
The most comprehensive assessment to date of global adult mortality shows how health disparities among countries and between men and women are widening around the world.
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.
Public financing of health by domestic governments nearly doubled between 1995 and 2006, according to IHME research. The study also analyzes the effect of development assistance for health, gross domestic product, government size, debt relief, and HIV prevalence on government health spending from domestic sources.
A novel analytical technique shows that more adults are dying between the ages of 15 and 60 in developing countries than previously thought, according to new research. Additionally, the new techniques provide a tool for directly measuring the impact of HIV instead of relying solely on theoretical models.
Research shows that new analytical methods can measure child mortality more accurately and less expensively, enabling policymakers to respond more quickly to pressing public health concerns. The study shows how these new methods can be used to evaluate mortality trends in specific regions, revealing health disparities.
Novel techniques can make better use of incomplete vital registration systems for population health studies, according to new research. The study describes an approach to check the completeness and accuracy of databases that compile information from death certificates.
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.
Despite previous estimates of maternal mortality that showed little progress, this study, reveals that maternal deaths fell from more than 500,000 annually to fewer than 350,000 over the past 30 years.
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.
Research shows that more than 44,000 Iranian children under the age of 15 died due to injuries between 2001 and 2006, making injuries the leading cause of death among children in Iran.
Life expectancy in the US is shortened by more than four years because of preventable risk factors such as smoking and being overweight, IHME researchers found.
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.
The rate of diabetes in the US varies widely state to state, as does the rate of diagnosis, depending in part on which state a person lives in, race, and whether the person has insurance. This is the first study to examine the prevalence of diabetes and the proportion of undiagnosed diabetes state by state.
This is the first of an annual publication providing valid and consistent time series data for tracking global health resources and offering in-depth analyses in the following three areas: development assistance for health, government health expenditure, and private health expenditure. This first report focuses on development assistance for health.
Funding for health in developing countries quadrupled from $5.6 billion in 1990 to $21.8 billion in 2007, with private citizens, private foundations, and non-governmental organizations contributing an increasingly larger percentage of global health funding, research shows.
