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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Hopkinson, Nicholas S
• Lenney, Warren
• Langton-Hewer, Simon
• Bennett, Jonathan
• Swingwood, Ema
• Hughes, Alison
• Whittamore, Andrew
• Woolnough, Sarah

Titel

Children’s charter for lung health

Ist Teil von

• Thorax, 2022-01, Vol.77 (1), p.11-12

Ort / Verlag

England: BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and British Thoracic Society

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Growing lungs need to breathe clean air Exposure to particulate and other forms of pollution harms lung growth, increases the risk of developing lung disease and causes acute attacks in children who have lung disease. Indoor air quality is also vital, and no child should have to live in a cold, damp home or be exposed to passive smoke.7 This will require the development of local/personalised plans for reducing the impact of these factors. Caring for children and young people with lung conditions Improving community and long-term care for respiratory disease Lung health should be considered routinely as part of child development. Lung health—policy and research Research priorities need to be identified and pursued Urgent attention is needed to address knowledge gaps including, but not limited to (1) research that will influence policy, for example, estimated costs of preventable poor lung health, and the mechanisms that impair healthy lung development, (2) better diagnostics for paediatric lung disease and lung function assessment in early life, (3) facilitating digital health recording of child lung health parameters to enable data linkage to advance knowledge of the impact of early child lung health for adult health, (4) the case for routine lung health checks including spirometry around secondary school entrance as a marker of a poor respiratory outcome, (5) behavioural studies for prevention and treatments/activation, (6) the management of both common conditions and rare high impact diseases, (7) addressing the fact that the evidence for many medications used by children is based only on extrapolation from adult data, (8) health services research to consider optimum delivery across primary and secondary care.