A strategy for measuring health outcomes and evaluating impacts of interventions on asthma and COPD-common chronic respiratory diseases in Global Alliance against Chronic Respiratory Diseases (GARD) countries

Affiliations

• ¹ The Hospital for Sick Children, Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
• ² ProAR - Núcleo de Excelência em Asma, Faculdade de Medicina da Bahia, UFBA, Salvador, Brazil.
• ³ CNR Institutes of Biomedicine and Molecular Immunology (Palermo) and of Clinical Physiology (Pisa), Italy.
• ⁴ Global Alliance against Chronic Respiratory Diseases, Geneva, Switzerland.
• ⁵ Celal Bayar University, Medical School Manisa, Manisa, Turkey.
• ⁶ Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
• ⁷ LIBRA Foundation Argentina and Faculty of Medicine, Catholic University, Cordoba, Argentina.
• ⁸ Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland.
• ⁹ Forum of International Respiratory Societies, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA.
• ¹⁰ Montpellier University and INSERM U 780, Montpellier, France.