Who's Missing from Pulmonary Rehabilitation?

LungFIT: Pulmonary Rehab Podcast

Hi everyone, and welcome to the LungFIT podcast. I am going to be taking a much needed break for the next while, so I hope you enjoy this past episode on who's missing from pumonary rehabilitation. I'll be back soon with new content, but until then, thank you again for your support.

In this talk, I discuss concepts related to who is missing from pulmonary rehabilitation. I mention a study we did in Canada to characterize the pulmonary rehabilitation programs which were running in 2015. The link to that paper is here (https://cts-sct.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/PR-in-Canada-Report_CRJ.pdf)

I also mention a systematic review on several pulmonary rehabilitation survey studies, the link to that paper is here. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3109/15412555.2014.922066

The Cochrane review I spoke of can be found here: https://www.cochrane.org/CD003793/AIRWAYS_pulmonary-rehabilitation-for-chronic-obstructive-pulmonary-disease and the associated editorial is found here: https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.ED000107/full

The link to Dr. Jenny Alison’s and Mr. David Meharg’s Breathe Easy podcast episode on the American Thoracic Society Pulmonary Rehabilitation Assembly’s website can be found here: https://www.thoracic.org/about/ats-podcasts/pulmonary-rehabilitation-for-hard-to-reach-populations-focus-on-indigenous-people.php

I also talk a bit about health inequality in pulmonary rehabilitation in a different American Thoracic Society Breathe Easy podcast, which can be found here: https://www.thoracic.org/about/ats-podcasts/health-inequality-in-pulmonary-rehabilitation.php

If you want to read a bit more about intersectionality and health care, I found this paper published in the Lancet to be very helpful in explaining this complicated concept: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(18)31431-4/fulltext

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