Inequalities in Respiratory Health

Ian P. Sinha, Alice Lee, S. Vittal Katikireddi, Jennifer K. Quint (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

2023
European Respiratory Society (Verlag)
978-1-84984-157-3 (ISBN)

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Health inequalities have long been deeply engrained in society. If we are to address these inequalities, we need to reflect on what has driven them, and critically review the approaches that do and do not work. This Monograph brings together leading experts and up-and-coming researchers, in a collection of state-of-the-art articles, discussing the drivers and consequences of respiratory inequality.

Ian P. Sinha is a consultant respiratory paediatrician at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital (Liverpool, UK) and an Honorary Associate Clinical Professor at the University of Liverpool (Liverpool). He is clinical lead for the National Asthma and COPD audit programme in the UK. Alice Lee is a paediatric trainee in the North West of England, currently working as a clinical research and innovation fellow at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital whilst undertaking a PhD in early years respiratory Health inequalities at the University of Liverpool. S. Vittal Katikireddi is Professor of Public Health and Health Inequalities at the University of Glasgow (Glasgow, UK) and an honorary Consultant in Public Health at Public Health Scotland. Jennifer K. Quint is a Professor of Respiratory Epidemiology in the School of Public Health and the National Heart and Lung Institute at Imperial College London (London, UK), and an Honorary Consultant Physician in Respiraotry Medicine at both the Royal Brompton (London) and Imperial College London NHS Foundation Trust (London).

How to read a paper about inequality in respiratory disease: basic epidemiological principles and how inequalities are measured; What causes poverty and how does this contribute to respiratory inequality?; Ethnic, racial and migrant inequalities in respiratory health; Inequalities in respiratory health based on sex and gender; Air pollution and respiratory inequality: lessons from high-income countries; Food insecurity and respiratory ill health; Housing and respiratory health: exposures, health effects and interventions; Tobacco, novel tobacco and nicotine products, and respiratory health; Work and respiratory health: lessons from occupational lung disease; Antenatal determinants of child lung development; Inequalities in cystic fibrosis; Health inequality and COPD; Inequalities in asthma; Lung cancer and inequalities in access to multidisciplinary lung cancer services; Societal drivers of antimicrobial resistance; Inclusion health: respiratory health among people affected by social exclusion; Preventable deaths from respiratory diseases in children in low- and middle-income countries; Air quality in low- and middle-income countries: what is the impact on respiratory morbidity and mortality?; Global inequalities in tuberculosis; Can a quality improvement approach reduce inequalities in respiratory health?; A human rights-based approach to equity in respiratory health; Global inequalities in children with asthma

Erscheinungsdatum	02.03.2023
Reihe/Serie	ERS Monograph ; 99
Verlagsort	Sheffield
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Innere Medizin ► Pneumologie
ISBN-10	1-84984-157-8 / 1849841578
ISBN-13	978-1-84984-157-3 / 9781849841573
Zustand	Neuware