IHME Data

The Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 (GBD 2013), coordinated by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), estimated the burden of diseases, injuries, and risk factors globally and for 21 regions. Death and YLL results were published in The Lancet in December 2014 in "Global, regional, and national age-sex specific all-cause and cause-specific mortality for 240 causes of death, 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013." Files available from this record are the tables contained in the article. GBD 2010 DisMod source code for estimation and the source code for the updated GBD 2013 methods are both available online.

The Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 (GBD 2013), coordinated by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), estimated the burden of diseases, injuries, and risk factors globally and for 21 regions. The fifth Millennium Development Goal (MDG 5) established the goal of a 75% reduction in the maternal mortality ratio between 1990 and 2015.

This dataset provides the number of maternal deaths by cause and by timing with respect to delivery, and the maternal mortality ratio, for 188 countries, 21 regions, and globally by age group and sex, for 1990-2013. The results were published in The Lancet in May 2014 in “Global, regional, and national levels and causes of maternal mortality during 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013.”

The dataset contains adult congenital heart disease estimates and projections produced at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation in collaboration with the University of Washington Department of Medicine. Estimates and projections are for 1970 to 2050 for the United States. The files include data extracted from the National Health Interview Survey and National Vital Statistics System as well as data analysis source code used to produce the estimates. The archive is associated with the following publication:

Benziger CP, Stout K, Zaragoza-Macias E, Bertozzi-Villa A, Flaxman AD. Projected growth of the adult congenital heart disease population in the United States to 2050: an integrative systems modeling approach. Population Health Metrics. 2015; 13:29. doi:10.1186/s12963-015-0063-z. URL: http://www.pophealthmetrics.com/content/13/1/29.

IHME research published in Population Health Metrics in March 2014, "Cigarette smoking prevalence in US counties: 1996-2012," provides prevalence estimates by county, year, and sex from 1996-2012. These files also include annualized rates of change by county.

These data were collected as part of the Population Health Metrics Research Consortium (PHMRC) project. The files contain verbal autopsies (VAs) that were collected at six sites in four countries (India, Mexico, Tanzania, and the Philippines) using a standardized VA questionnaire developed by the PHMRC. The three datasets correspond to the main questionnaire subcomponents: neonate, child, and adult. The individual VAs are matched with "gold standard" diagnoses of underlying causes of death, which were established from medical records using stringent diagnostic criteria, including laboratory, pathology and medical imaging findings. All "open narrative" portions of the VAs were parsed for individual words or stems, which are included as variables in the final dataset, to remove any potentially identifying information in that portion of the interview. Variables that were analyzed as "health care experience" in past research are identified in the codebook.

IHME research, published in the journal AIDS provides estimates of health loss from HIV/AIDS as mesaured in DALYs, or disability-adjusted life years for 187 countries for years 1990-2010.  The study, The burden of HIV: insights from the GBD 2010, is part of the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors 2010 (GBD 2010) Study.

IHME research, published in Population Health Metrics in July 2013, provides life expectancy data by county and sex in the United States from 1985-2010. The study, "Left Behind: Widening Disparities for Men and Women in US County Life Expectancy, 1985-2010," examines large disparities seen in life expectancy across communities. A previous study done by IHME provided US state and county life expectancy numbers by sex and race for the years 1987-2009.

The GBD Study 2010 estimated the burden of diseases, injuries, and risk factors globally and for 21 regions for 1990 and 2010. The study was implemented as a collaboration of Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) as coordinating center, University of Queensland, Harvard School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, University of Tokyo, Imperial College London, and WHO.

This dataset provides results for the burden of disease and injury in the United Kingdom. Metrics provided are deaths, years of life lost (YLLs), years lived with disability (YLDs), and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs). The results were published in The Lancet in March 2013 in "UK health performance: findings of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010."

The GBD Study 2010 estimated the burden of diseases, injuries, and risk factors globally and for 21 regions for 1990 and 2010. The study was implemented as a collaboration of Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) as coordinating center, University of Queensland, Harvard School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, University of Tokyo, Imperial College London, and WHO.

This dataset provides population estimates for each of the 21 GBD regions. Estimates are given for 1970 through 2010, by age and sex.

The GBD Study 2010 estimated the burden of diseases, injuries, and risk factors globally and for 21 regions for 1990 and 2010. The study was implemented as a collaboration of Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) as coordinating center, University of Queensland, Harvard School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, University of Tokyo, Imperial College London, and WHO.

One dataset provides number of deaths and mortality rates for 187 countries, 21 regions, and globally by age group and sex, for 1970, 1980, 1990, 2000 and 2010. The other provides the probabilities of dying between the ages of 15 and 60 (45q15), the probabilities of dying between birth and age 5 (5q0), and mean ages of death for the same geographies and years, and by sex. The results were published in The Lancet in December 2012 in "Age-specific and sex-specific mortality in 187 countries, 1970-2010: a systematic analysis for the GBD Study 2010."

The GBD Study 2010 estimated the burden of diseases, injuries, and risk factors globally and for 21 regions for 1990 and 2010. The study was implemented as a collaboration of Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) as coordinating center, University of Queensland, Harvard School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, University of Tokyo, Imperial College London, and WHO.

This dataset provides four metrics with uncertainty intervals for 291 diseases and injuries: deaths, years of life lost (YLLs), years lived with disability (YLDs), and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) by region, age, and sex. The results were published in The Lancet in December 2012 in "Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups," "Years lived with disability (YLDs) for 1160 sequelae of 289 diseases and injuries 1990-2010," and "Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 291 diseases and injuries in 21 regions, 1990-2010."

IHME research published in PLOS Medicine in October 2013, "Mortality in Iraq Associated with the 2003-2011 War and Occupation: Findings from a National Cluster Sample Survey by the University Collaborative Iraq Mortality Study," provides estimates of all cause mortality from 2001 to 2011. The files include data collected by two stage cluster sampling and data analysis source code used to produce estimates.

IHME research published online in Population Health Metrics in July 2012. The study, Developing a comprehensive time series of GDP per capita for 210 countries from 1950 to 2015, provides a complete time series for these years in both US dollars and international dollars. This research also generated estimates for seven datasets that calculate GDP but were incomplete across years (World Bank, the United Nations Statistics Division, the International Monetary Fund, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Groningen).

IHME research, published in The Lancet, provides estimates of malaria mortality and cumulative probability of death from malaria for 105 countries with local malaria transmission. The study, Global malaria mortality between 1980 and 2010: a systematic analysis, is part of the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors 2010 Study.

IHME results data from global analysis of child mortality for years 1990-2011 published online in The Lancet in September 2011. The study, "Progress towards Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5 on maternal and child mortality: an updated systematic analysis," provides global and country level estimates of child mortality rates, the number of child deaths, and the annualized rate of decline in child mortality. Additionally, estimates of when each country will achieve MDG 4 are provided.Countries that will achieve MDG 4 after 2040 have the value, "2040+."

This study included maternal mortality estimates, also available in the GHDx.

This is a complete time series for life expectancy from 1987 to 2007 for all US counties, and released as part of IHME research published in Population Health Metrics. The study, "Falling behind: life expectancy in US counties from 2000 to 2007 in an international context," was published June 15, 2011. Results show large disparities nationwide.

Note: The 3,141 US counties were merged into 2,357 clusters for this research. This was done to account for changes in county definitions over time and low death counts in some counties. Counties with fewer than 7,000 males or 7,000 females were joined with neighboring counties in the same state of similar size, income, and percent of population reported as black or Native American until the cutoff was met. Within the dataset, counties in the same cluster will have the same results.

IHME research, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, analyzed the most surveys on high cholesterol to date to generate estimates of prevalence rates, treatment rates, and control rates with confidence intervals for eight countries. The study, "High total serum cholesterol, medication coverage and therapeutic control: an analysis of national health examination survey data from eight countries," covers England, Germany, Japan, Jordan, Mexico, Scotland, Thailand, and the United States. It reveals a wide gap in how patients with high cholesterol are treated in the countries studied.

IHME research, published in the American Journal of Epidemiology, studied interviews and hearing loss tests from four nationally representative surveys that were conducted between 1976 and 2006 on men and women ages 20-69. The research team developed a methodology for standardizing the surveys and used all available data to find the true trend in hearing loss reduction.

IHME research, published in Population Health Metrics in September 2010, introduces a new approach for generating estimates of health trends using small area measurement methods. The study, A novel framework for validating and applying standardized small area measurement strategies, provides estimates for diabetes prevalence by sex, difference between county and state prevalence, and a county ranking. Results show large variation in county-level diabetes prevalence rates.

IHME research, published in The Lancet in 2008. The study, "Tracking progress towards universal childhood immunisation and the impact of global initiatives: a systematic analysis of three-dose diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis immunisation coverage," provides estimates with confidence intervals of the coverage of three-dose diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis (DTP3) vaccination. The estimates take into account all publicly available data, including data from routine reporting systems and nationally representative surveys.

IHME research produced a global assessment of levels and trends in maternal mortality for the years 1980-2008. This dataset provides global, regional, and national level estimates for maternal mortality ratio (MMR - the number of maternal deaths per 100,000 live births) as well as the number of maternal deaths. Results of the study were published online in The Lancet in April 2010 in "Maternal mortality for 181 countries, 1980-2008: a systematic analysis of progress towards Millennium Development Goal 5."