In this issue of Clinics in Chest Medicine, guest editors Drs. Drew Harris, Emily Brigham, and Juan Celedon bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Aiming to Improve Equity in Pulmonary Health. Top experts discuss disparities in risk factors for respiratory diseases, how communities are affected unequally, interventions to mitigate disparities, and evidence of effects, if present.
Contains 17 practice-oriented topics including racism and bias, tobacco use, air pollution and climate change, occupational hazards, access to care and rural health, asthma and COPD, lung cancer, pulmonary hypertension, migrants and refugees, sex and gender, homelessness and incarceration, mental illness, and more.
Provides in-depth clinical reviews of improving equity in pulmonary health, offering actionable insights for clinical practice.
Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.
What Have We Learned About Transmission of Coronavirus Disease-2019: Implications for Pulmonary Function Testing and Pulmonary Procedures Coronavirus Disease-2019 Pneumonia: Clinical Manifestations Pathophysiology of Hypoxemia in COVID-19 Lung Disease Impact of COVID-19 on Nonpulmonary Critical Illness: Prevalence, Clinical Manifestations, Management, and Outcomes Post-COVID Interstitial Lung Disease and Other Lung Sequelae Antiviral Treatment of Coronavirus Disease-2019 Pneumonia Immunomodulatory Agents for Coronavirus Disease-2019 Pneumonia Lessons Learned in Mechanical Ventilation/Oxygen Support in Coronavirus Disease 2019 The Use of Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation for COVID-19: Lessons Learned Lung Transplantation in Coronavirus-19 Patients: What We Have Learned So Far SARS-CoV-2 Infection and COVID-19 in Children Coronavirus Disease-2019 in Pregnancy COVID-19 in Patients with Chronic Lung Disease Coronavirus Disease-2019 in the Immunocompromised Host The Impact of Coronavirus Disease 2019 on Viral, Bacterial, and Fungal Respiratory Infections Lessons Learned from Health Disparities in Coronavirus Disease-2019 in the United States Lessons Learned from a Global Perspective of Coronavirus Disease-2019
