International Congresses Vienna 2024

The ERS Congress 2024, Vienna

This annual event brings together the world's respiratory experts to showcase all the latest advances in respiratory medicine and science.

Chair(s): Hilary Pinnock, Jellien Makonga-Braaksma, Thomas Gille

Session type: Symposium

Sundeep Santosh Salvi

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How can we increase capacity in pulmonary rehabilitation using examples from lower-to-middle-income countries?

Sundeep Santosh Salvi

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Kevin Ku Wing Soon

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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.