Women and people assigned female at birth are getting screwed out of the healthy lives they deserve.
Category: Essay 2: How do we measure health?
Curing the Global Health System, One Prescription at a Time
It’s possible, really…
iHealth
Who cares about you, and whom do you care about? Every year billions of dollars are spent trying to figure out, just this. Why do you think the advertisements you see on Facebook are so accurate? Every time you online shop or search products or services on Google, measurements are being made like how long…
Malnutrition and Mali: Food, Education, Global Health
The chart shows the nutritional deficiencies worldwide as measured by DALYs by the Global Burden of Disease study. Mali is clearly the most affected. Is there a fix?
Just What the Doctor Ordered: A Script for Improving Global Health
Using effective altruism and results from the Global Burden of Disease Study to get the biggest bang for the charitable buck.
A few resources from Kate Lofgren ’09, a former post-bachelor’s fellow at IHME
Our J-term course on the book Epic Measures was fortunate to have Kate Lofgren ’09 join us via Skype on Thursday to share her experiences as a post-bachelor’s fellow at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). It was a delightful surprise to see Smith College mentioned in the book — as part of…
How many doctors does it take to cure the world?
How do we take the pulse of global health? It is impossible to perform a physical on everyone in the world, and once you did the data would be out of date. Yet, we have access to data on various health conditions, which often provide information such as the number of people affected by disease…
The Visible, the Physical, and the Known: A Non-Virtuous Cycle to Measuring Health
“Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”
World Health Organization, 1948
If you don’t like the answer, change it: and measurements of health
Last semester, I sat in a lecture with a handful of high ranking international development types who were all sharing with us the future impacts and directions of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). One of them, who criticized these goals mentioned how the UN had changed the method of measuring the progress of the Millennium Development…
Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story?
How do we measure health? Who decides and who is left out?
The End of Guesstimating World Health
The Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation is ending the cycle of misinformation on world health.
A Matter of Life and Death: Putting Health Problems on a Scale
In the beginning (prior to the 1990s), there was a whole mess of data on health and the world. Demographers checked to see who died when, but didn’t care about the why. Epidemiologists watched and tried to stop illness as it spread through the masses, but were uninterested in the overall health of the country. Health agencies looked…
World conspiracy finally revealed!
Wait until you find out what else has been hidden from you!
Now, Tell Me Where it Hurts
On a scale of one to ten, rate your pain.
The GBD Atlas: Holding Together the World of Health Measurement
As the mythology goes, Atlas was a titan, who held the sky on his shoulders and lived with the burden of keeping the Earth and celestial spheres separate. Before the Global Burden of Disease study, health was measured in mostly death rates and causes. However, even this seemingly simple measurement is often confounded by confused causes…
Reading Epic Measures at Smith College 