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Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. 2024 ‘GBD Results Tool.’ Global Health Data Exchange. Seattle WA: University of Washington. 18 April

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The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) is an independent global health research center at the University of Washington. The Global Health Data Exchange (GHDx) is a data catalog created and supported by IHME.

About IHME

IHME provides rigorous and comparable measurement of the world's most important health problems and evaluates the strategies used to address them. IHME makes this information freely available so that policymakers have the evidence they need to make informed decisions about how to allocate resources to best improve population health.

How the GHDx supports the IHME mission

The GHDx directly supports IHME's mission to improve the health of the world's populations by providing the best information on population health. It was created as a dedicated place for anyone interested in global health and demography to quickly find and share information about data along with actual datasets.

Encouraging the use of data for global health and demography starts with providing a comprehensive overview of what relevant data exist. Today, researchers, governmental organizations, and other data owners sometimes provide access to their data on their own websites. Some provide their data to social science data archives and research archives. And in many instances, data are not shared at all. The GHDx is a place where information about data from those different places and providers is brought together, discussed, and featured in the context of health and demographic research. In addition, the GHDx raises awareness about different groups collecting data worldwide and provides standardized citations to encourage appropriate acknowledgment of data owners' contributions.

[Editor's note: the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Results Tool is the querying system of GHDx, and can be used to find estimated values relating to various aspects of armed violence. GunPolicy.org uses these estimates to fill in gaps left by states that do not routinely publish or disclose firearm mortality data. It must be noted that statistics provided by the GBD Results Tool are estimates informed by inputs from a variety of established data sources. To read more about these sources and their methodology, follow this link: http://ghdx.healthdata.org/gbd-2016/data-input-sources

The GBD Results Tool can be used to provide data on the following aspects of armed violence:
- Homicide (Any Method)
- Gun Homicide
- Suicide (Any Method)
- Gun Suicide
- Legal Intervention Deaths
- Conflict-related Deaths]

ID: Q13503

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