Open AccessConference: "COPD: a social disease: inappropriateness and pharmaco-economics. The role of the specialist: present and future"
Author(s) -
Claudio F. Donner
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
multidisciplinary respiratory medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.72
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 2049-6958
pISSN - 1828-695X
DOI - 10.4081/mrm.2010.519
Subject(s) - copd , epidemiology , medicine , disease , intensive care medicine , pulmonary disease , gerontology , psychiatry , pathology
Chronic respiratory diseases (CRDs), with particular regard to COPD, constitute an epidemic in the full sense of the term, though they still go underdiag- nosed and undertreated. COPD is one of the major health problems worldwide, negatively affecting patients and their families, the employment sector, the institutional network and, hence, society as a whole. Its epidemiological, clinical, social and socio-economic impact is on the rise and there are no signs of any change to this trend.
Edited by Claudio F. Donner