1. The UK's Global Health Respiratory Network:Improving respiratory health of the world's poorest through research collaborations
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Peymane Adab, Aziz Sheikh, S Vittal Katikireddi, Jonathan Grigg, Bertie Squire, Rachel Jordan, Kevin Mortimer, Robert S. Heyderman, Neil Fitch, F Davidson, Sally Singh, Philip J. Cooper, Ioanna Tsiligianni, Kamran Siddiqi, Steven Kuo, Siân Williams, Anne Readshaw, Martina Savio, Brenda Kwambana-Adams, Gioia Mosler, Harry Campbell, Mauricio Lima Barreto, Peter J. Dodd, Linda Bauld, Dimitra Sifaki-Pistolla, Alastair H Leyland, Chris Griffiths, Alvaro A. Cruz, Angela Obasi, Alexandra Enocson, Dominique Balharry, and Mark W Orme
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Biomedical Research ,Inequality ,media_common.quotation_subject ,030231 tropical medicine ,MEDLINE ,Developing country ,Global Health ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Environmental health ,Health care ,Global health ,Humans ,Medicine ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Cooperative Behavior ,Developing Countries ,Respiratory health ,media_common ,Asthma ,business.industry ,Health Policy ,Editorials ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,Respiration Disorders ,medicine.disease ,United Kingdom ,3. Good health ,Respiratory network ,business - Abstract
Respiratory disorders are responsible for considerable morbidity, health care utilisation, societal costs and approximately one in five deaths worldwide [1-4]. Yet, despite this substantial health and societal burden – which particularly affects the world’s poorest populations and as such is a major contributor to global health inequalities – respiratory disorders have historically not received the policy priority they warrant. For example, despite causing an estimated 1000 deaths per day, less than half of the world’s countries collect data on asthma prevalence (http://www.globalasthmareport.org/). This is true for both communicable and non-communicable respiratory disorders, many of which are either amenable to treatment or preventable.
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- 2019