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IHME Fact Sheet:
IHME has grown from employing three individuals nine years ago to managing more than 300 faculty and staff today, while producing more than 200 scientific papers annually, and working closely with global and national institutions to improve health systems worldwide. Its findings are published in major scientific journals, policy reports, and online data visualizations. Moreover, IHME is now considered the trusted source for The World Bank, the United States Agency for International Development, The National Institutes of Health, the Wellcome Trust, and a range of other national and global organizations.
Among its work, IHME publishes the annual Global Burden of Disease study (GBD), a systematic, scientific effort to quantify the magnitude of health loss from all major diseases, injuries, and risk factors by age, sex and population. With more than 2,000 collaborators in nearly 130 nations, the GBD examines 300-plus diseases and injuries and about 80 risk factors in every country, as well as sub-national assessments for China, Mexico, UK, Brazil, Japan, India, Saudi Arabia, Kenya and South Africa. In the U.S., 230 causes of death are estimated in every county in every state by census tract.
The 2015 study, released in October, included more than 13 billion estimates of illnesses and injuries evaluated. (See: http://www.healthdata.org/news-release/increase-global-life-expectancy-offset-war-obesity-and-substance-abuse) |