Aiming to Improve Equity in Pulmonary Health, An Issue of Clinics in Chest Medicine

1st Edition, Volume 44-3 - June 28, 2023
Editors: Emily Brigham, Drew Harris, Juan C. Celedón
Language: English
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In this issue, guest editors bring their considerable expertise to this important topic.

Cover image
Title page
Table of Contents
Copyright
Contributors
Forthcoming Issues
Preface
Structural and Social Determinants of Inequitable Environmental Exposures in the United States
Key points
Introduction
Historical context of marginalized groups
Social discrimination and the overlap between race or ethnicity and poverty
Structural sources of unequal exposures
Intervention strategies to improve air quality
Summary
Clinics care points
Funding
Disclosure
Race, Racism, and Respiratory Health
Key points
The construct of race and racism
Summary
Disclosures
Clinics care points
Funding
Tobacco Use and Tobacco Dependence Management
Key points
Introduction
Global tobacco-related disparities
Tobacco-related disparities in the United States
Mental health and tobacco-related disparities
Clinics care points
Climate Change, Air Quality, and Pulmonary Health Disparities
Key points
Introduction
Summary
Clinics care points
Funding
Rurality as a Risk Factor for Pulmonary Health Disparities
Key points
Introduction
Nutrition and exercise
Educational attainment
Social and cultural determinants of health
Accessing subspecialty pulmonary care
Lung cancer
Lung transplant
Rural health policy
Summary
Clinics care points
Funding
Disclosure
Respiratory Infections
Key points
Introduction
Community-acquired pneumonia
Influenza
COVID-19
Tuberculosis
Summary
Disclosure
Asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Key points
Introduction
Asthma
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Summary
Clinics care points
Funding/support
Disclosure
Disparities Across the Continuum of Lung Cancer Care
Key points
Introduction
Measured disparities across the continuum of lung cancer
Clinics care points
Disclosure
Health Care Disparities in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
Key points
Introduction
Considerations
Limitations in current understanding of pulmonary arterial hypertension disparities
Pulmonary arterial hypertension and gender
Pulmonary arterial hypertension and race/ethnicity
Pulmonary arterial hypertension in Hispanics
Pulmonary hypertension in low- and middle-income countries
Pulmonary arterial hypertension in rural populations
Gaps in knowledge and future directions
Clinics care points
Financial/nonfinancial disclosures
Aiming to Improve Equity in Pulmonary Health: Cystic Fibrosis
Key points
Introduction
Evidence of health disparities in cystic fibrosis
Determinants of health disparities in cystic fibrosis
Strategies for health equity in cystic fibrosis
Summary
Funding
Disclosure
Interstitial Lung Disease and Sarcoidosis
Key points
Socioeconomic disparities
Racial disparities
Sex and gender disparities
Geographic disparities
Determinants of disparities
Avenues to address disparities
Summary
Clinics care points
Funding sources
Disparities in Sleep-Disordered Breathing: Upstream Risk Factors, Mechanisms, and Implications
Key points
Prevalence and risk factors across the life course
Consequences of sleep-disordered breathing
Disparities in sleep health and sleep-disordered breathing
Conceptual framework: linking upstream to intermediate mechanisms for sleep-disordered breathing disparities
Future research directions
Summary
Clinics care points
Disclosure
Supporting the Respiratory Health of Migrants and Refugees
Key points
Who are considered migrants and refugees?
Noncommunicable diseases
Communicable infectious diseases
How does health literacy contribute to the burden of respiratory disease?
Addressing systemic barriers to respiratory health for migrants and refugees
Summary
Clinics care points
Aiming to Improve Equity in Lung Health: Sex and Gender
Key points
Introduction
History
Mechanisms of impact of sex and gender on lung disease
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Asthma
Lung cancer
Interstitial lung disease
Obstructive sleep apnea
Impact of transgender and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning on lung disease
Summary
Clinics care points
Disclosure
Health Equity and Respiratory Diseases in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Key points
Introduction
Global epidemiology
Risk factors for respiratory diseases in low- and middle-income countries
Screening and diagnostic testing for respiratory diseases
Identifying opportunities to improve health equity
Summary
Clinics care points
Disclosures
Occupational Contributions to Respiratory Health Disparities
Key points
Introduction
Disease examples
Strategies for improving equity
Summary
Clinics care points
Disclosure
Telehealth Services: Improving Equity in Pulmonary Health Outcomes
Key points
Introduction
Limitations
Summary
Clinics care points
Disclosure

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Emily Brigham

Drew Harris

Juan C. Celedón