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IHME is the world's largest independent health data resource with state-of-the-art search, analytic, and display tools.The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation's (IHME) mission is to provide comprehensive data and analytics to support efforts to improve health worldwide. IHME's databases are the result of a $500m investment, growing at $50m per year into the collection, validation and analysis of worldwide disease data. IHME's comprehensive data suite is a result of work from:
IHME Client Services provides data and analytic guidance to heads of state, major philanthropists, fortune 500 companies in the pharma, insurance and health care and many other industries. |
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IHME equips decision makers with data-driven insights that drive confident, strategic decision making.
The Treemap chart is essentially a square pie chart; the size of the box is proportionate to the disease burden. Blue = non-communicable diseases, Red = communicable, maternal, neonatal, and nutritional diseases, Green = Injuries.
Comprehensive, comparable estimates help facilitate:
- Investments in health and impact measurement,
- Cross-functional knowledge sharing,
- Clinical trial site selection and design,
- Disease and modifiable risk factor forecasting,
- Quantifying disease prevalence and burden across markets.
IHME leads the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD), the single largest scientific effort to measure trends and levels in population health. The GBD study is the gold standard in population health metrics.
The GBD project produces time series data since 1990 for:
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The GBD quantifies health loss due to all diseases, injuries, and risk factors, for each country and many subnational areas, by age and sex, and over time.
GBD geographical units are mutually exclusive and globally exhaustive, broken down by:
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Learn more about available IHME Data and services here.