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The overall proportion of patients receiving hydroxychloroquine peaked at 55.2% in March and April and decreased to 4.8% in May and June and 0.8% in July and August.

We make datasets and our sources freely available so that policymakers have the evidence they need to make informed decisions about how to allocate resources to best improve population health.

Air pollution affects millions of people worldwide. Both household and outdoor air pollution pose severe threats related to cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, cancers, and other conditions.

The regional mortality estimates are based on an analysis of 2021 Global Burden of Disease data, the latest available from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.

“The poorest farmers are the hardest hit, having to cope with more droughts, pests, and diseases, which in turn exacerbate food shortages and push up food prices. We’ve been working with the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation to better understand the climate-induced hunger crisis.” [Bill Gates on Nigeria’s food insecurity.]

From 2004 to 2021 (the most recent year for which IHME data are available), more Europeans were killed by firearms than were American kids.

These estimates come from the latest Global Burden of Disease study from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME).

New forecasts from the Global Research on Antimicrobial Resistance (GRAM) Project suggest that bacterial antimicrobial resistance (AMR) will cause 39 million deaths between 2025 and 2050 – which equates to three deaths every minute.

In 2021, we estimated 4.71 million deaths were associated with bacterial AMR, including 1.14 million deaths attributable to bacterial AMR.

Effective suicide prevention strategies for autistic persons may substantially reduce the fatal burden of suicides globally and reduce the health burden experienced within this population.

Upper respiratory infections (URIs) are the leading cause of acute disease incidence worldwide and contribute to a substantial health care burden.

We estimated that in 2019, the direct health care spending attributable to ADRD across 204 countries reached $260.6 billion and the cost of informal ADRD care was $354.1 billion.

IHME announced today Dr. Mirza Balaj and Dr. Mahdi Safdarian as the winners of the 2024 GBD Emerging Researcher Award.

Donor health funding is declining in sub-Saharan Africa, and domestic spending is not rising to cover the gaps.

Development assistance for health provided to sub-Saharan Africa is expected to decrease in some countries, and the expected growth in government health spending might not be enough to cover this expected decline.

Around the world total health spending is expected to rise as a share of GDP, but in Sub-Saharan Africa it is expected to decrease.