How Do We "Help the World Breathe"?

Hopewell, P.; Pinkerton, K.; Buist, A. S.; Moschovis, P.; Gordon, S. B.; Cruz, A. A.; International Health Committee American Thoracic Society; Adhikari, N. K. J.; Sly, P.; Accinelli Tanaka, Roberto Alfonso; West, T. E.

dc.contributor.author	Gordon, S. B.
dc.contributor.author	Buist, A. S.
dc.contributor.author	Hopewell, P.
dc.contributor.author	Pinkerton, K.
dc.contributor.author	Sly, P.
dc.contributor.author	West, T. E.
dc.contributor.author	Moschovis, P.
dc.contributor.author	Accinelli Tanaka, Roberto Alfonso
dc.contributor.author	Cruz, A. A.
dc.contributor.author	Adhikari, N. K. J.
dc.contributor.author	International Health Committee American Thoracic Society
dc.date.accessioned	2019-01-25T17:02:40Z
dc.date.available	2019-01-25T17:02:40Z
dc.date.issued	2017
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/4969
dc.description.abstract	The American Thoracic Society (ATS) mission statement “we help the world breathe” is ambitious and will require the sustained and patient effort of all its members to be actualized. In particular, how relevant is this statement to the low- and middle-income countries that have the greatest disease burden? We are all used to the concept of translational science, well captured in the International Conference tag-line “where today’s science meets tomorrow’s care,” but we are equally aware that translation is a very long process, with technology trickling down from the wealthy to those of the under-served global majority taking even longer. So how can the ATS claim to help the world breathe? The answer to this challenging question lies in the five spheres of influence articulated in the ATS Global Health Agenda...	en_US
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.publisher	American Thoracic Society
dc.relation.ispartofseries	American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.es
dc.subject	Respiratory System	en_US
dc.subject	General & Internal Medicine	en_US
dc.title	How Do We "Help the World Breathe"?	en_US
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1164/rccm.201706-1174ED
dc.subject.ocde	https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#3.02.07
dc.subject.ocde	https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#3.02.08
dc.relation.issn	1535-4970