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The projected figure of musculoskeletal disorder cases is an increase of about 115 per cent from that of 2020, and most regions were projected to have at least a 50 per cent increase in cases between 2020 and 2050, the international study by The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, US, found.

Commentary: The global antibiotic pipeline is running dry. How can Singapore spur new drug development?

The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD), conducted by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington, finds high blood pressure due to lead exposure caused an estimated 850,000 deaths in 2019.

Unas previsiones, realizadas en el 2022, por el Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation de Estados Unidos, y con todas las cautelas que las previsiones requieren, dibujan un escenario un tanto preocupante, tanto para Japón como para España, al enfrentarse ambos a una reducción drástica de su población para el año 2100, que disminuiría a la mitad en comparación con 2017.

Three independent analyses — by the World Health Organization, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation and the Economist — come to a similar conclusion, that within the first three years globally, more than a million people died in the US and 20 million people died globally in excess of trends.

Incentives such as free child care may spur more births, but not enough to reverse the trend, says Christopher J.L. Murray, director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) in Seattle.

The Roux Prize, awarded by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington’s School of Medicine, is a beacon of recognition for individuals, who leverage evidence-based health data to improve population health.

Meta and its partners — the University of Maryland, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) — designed the Pandemic Recovery Survey to equip public health leaders, academic researchers, and NGOs with data and insights to inform pandemic response across the areas of health, education, and economic recovery.

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).

These findings are somewhat alarming considering that poor air quality from particulate matter is the sixth leading cause of global excess deaths annually, as reported by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.

“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.

“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.

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.

In 2020, researchers at the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation predicted that the global fertility rate would hit below 1.7 by the end of the century.

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.