Authors
Arūnas Valiulis, Jean Bousquet, Aurelijus Veryga, U Suprun, D Sergeenko, S Cebotari, D Borelli, S Pietikainen, Jūras Banys, I Agache, NE Billo, A Bush, I Chkhaidze, L Dubey, WJ Fokkens, J Grigg, T Haahtela, K Julge, O Katilov, N Khaltaev, M Odemyr, S Palkonen, R Savli, Algirdas Utkus, V Vilc, T Alasevicius, A Bedbrook, M Bewick, J Chorostowska-Wynimko, Edvardas Danila, Adamos Hadjipanayis, R Karseladze, V Kvedariene, Eugenijus Lesinskas, L Münter, B Samolinski, S Sargsyan, B Sitkauskiene, D Somekh, L Vaideliene, Algirdas Valiulis, PW Hellings
Publication date
2019/12
Source
Clinical and translational allergy
Volume
9
Pages
1-10
Publisher
BioMed Central
Description
Background
Over 1 billion people suffer from chronic respiratory diseases such as asthma, COPD, rhinitis and rhinosinusitis. They cause an enormous burden and are considered as major non-communicable diseases. Many patients are still uncontrolled and the cost of inaction is unacceptable. A meeting was held in Vilnius, Lithuania (March 23, 2018) under the patronage of the Ministry of Health and several scientific societies to propose multisectoral care pathways embedding guided self-management, mHealth and air pollution in selected chronic respiratory diseases (rhinitis, chronic rhinosinusitis, asthma and COPD). The meeting resulted in the Vilnius Declaration that was developed by the participants of the EU Summit on chronic respiratory diseases under the leadership of Euforea.
Conclusion
The Vilnius Declaration represents an important step …
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