Chair(s): Hilary Pinnock, Jellien Makonga-Braaksma, Thomas Gille
Session type: Symposium
Mark Orme
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Do we need to adapt pulmonary rehabilitation for delivery in low-to-middle-income countries?
Mark Orme
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Soo Chin Chan
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Sundeep Santosh Salvi
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Kevin Ku Wing Soon
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Session aims
To describe the global guidance for pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) and to identify the need and gap particularly in low-to-middle-income countries; to describe the particular challenges, evidence and potential solutions for PR in low-to-middle-income countries including learning about cultural adaptation from high-income countries; to raise awareness of the health inequalities in access to PR globally and processes that can be utilised to reduce them; to describe ways to improve PR training and capacity.