This statement outlines how air pollution affects patients with lung disease, highlights the main messages of the 2021 World Health Organization (WHO) Air Quality Guidelines, points out how the ambitious European Union (EU) Green Deal can provide solutions through a modern air quality legislation, and discusses the role of respiratory clinicians in improving air quality-related lung health.

Clean air for healthy lungs - an urgent call to action: European Respiratory Society position on the launch of the WHO 2021 Air Quality Guidelines / Z. Andersen, U. Gehring, S. De Matteis, E. Melen, A. Vicedo-Cabrera, K. Katsouyanni, A. Yorgancioglu, C. Ulrik, S. Medina, K. Hansen, P. Powell, B. Ward, B. Hoffmann. - In: EUROPEAN RESPIRATORY JOURNAL. - ISSN 0903-1936. - 58:6(2021 Dec), pp. 2102447.1-2102447.5. [10.1183/13993003.02447-2021]

Clean air for healthy lungs - an urgent call to action: European Respiratory Society position on the launch of the WHO 2021 Air Quality Guidelines

S. De Matteis;
2021

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This statement outlines how air pollution affects patients with lung disease, highlights the main messages of the 2021 World Health Organization (WHO) Air Quality Guidelines, points out how the ambitious European Union (EU) Green Deal can provide solutions through a modern air quality legislation, and discusses the role of respiratory clinicians in improving air quality-related lung health.
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dic-2021
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