Policy Priorities to Strengthen Respiratory Health Strategy in the European Union
Abstract:
Respiratory diseases represent a major and persistent public health challenge in the European Union, con tributing substantially to morbidity, mortality, healthcare utilisation, and health inequalities. Despite existing initiatives, respiratory health remains insufficiently integrated into broader infection, prevention and control strategies, vaccination plans, programmes to fight antimicrobial resistance.Starting from the current burden of respiratory diseases in the EU - including the Vaccine Preventable Respiratory Diseases (VPRDs) – a consen sus-based expert policy analysis was conducted through a multidisciplinary European Working Group on Re spiratory Care, comprising healthcare professionals and leaders of civic and patient organisations.This article aims to outline policy priorities to support a more integrated, equitable, and resilient European respiratory health strategy, emphasizing the collaborative role of all the actors, publics and privates, of the HCPs-Health Care Professionals and of the so-called intermediated bodies of the society: patients’ associations, PAG-Pa tients Advocacy Groups, CSOs-Civil Society Organizations.
