Chapters
- Editors' introduction
- Foreword from the World Health Organization
- Foreword from the European Commission
- Promoting respiratory health in Europe
- The burden of lung disease
- The economic burden of lung disease
- Genetic susceptibility
- Early-life events
- Diet and nutrition
- Outdoor environment
- Occupational risk factors
- Passive smoking
- Tobacco smoking
- Introduction
- Key points
- Epidemiology
- Figure 1
- Toxic effects of tobacco smoke
- Disorders induced by tobacco smoking
- Figure 2
- Societal costs of smoking
- Dependence on tobacco
- Legislation and prevention of smoking
- Figure 3
- Pharmacotherapy for smoking cessation
- Counselling for smoking cessation
- Benefits of quitting smoking
- Cost-effectiveness of smoking cessation
- ERS guidelines on smoking cessation
- Future developments
- Conclusions
- Further reading
- Indoor environment
- Childhood asthma
- Adult asthma
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- Cystic fibrosis
- Bronchiectasis
- Paediatric respiratory diseases
- Introduction
- Key Points
- Figure 1
- Acute bronchiolitis
- Figure 2
- Figure 3
- Perinatal respiratory diseases and BPD
- Figure 4
- Figure 5
- Severe community-acquired pneumonia in children
- Figure 6
- Tuberculosis in children
- Figure 7
- Immunisation
- Figure 8
- Congenital respiratory disorders
- General remarks
- Further reading
- Tuberculosis
- Acute lower respiratory infections
- Lung cancer
- Acute respiratory distress syndrome
- Pulmonary vascular disease
- Interstitial lung diseases
- Sleep breathing disorders
- Occupational lung diseases
- Rare and orphan lung diseases
- Immunisation against respiratory diseases
- Principles of respiratory investigation
- Principles of respiratory therapy
- Pulmonary rehabilitation
- Paediatric respiratory medicine
- Respiratory intensive care
- Thoracic surgery
- Medical respiratory specialists
- Allied respiratory professionals
- Primary care practitioners
- Specialist clinical training (HERMES)
- ERS School and postgraduate education
- Respiratory research
- Respiratory journals and publications
- Patient organisations and the European Lung Foundation
- Recommendations and policy