14 November, 2024
LungHealth4Life is inviting healthcare professionals, policymakers and patients to share their knowledge and experience by joining their Community of Practice.
LungHealth4Life is a Lungs Europe-led and EU4Health-funded project that was launched in September 2024, with the aim of improving children’s awareness of lung health. Led by Lungs Europe, a partnership of ERS and the European Lung Foundation, a consortium of six partners will investigate whether lung function testing in schools, combined with education on lung health, is an effective way to reduce the rate of long-term lung conditions. LungHealth4Life also aims to identify and address societal and health inequalities that contribute to lung diseases and premature death. The countries involved are Poland, Portugal and Hungary.
Lungs Europe’s role in the project is to support project management, lead on communications, dissemination, policy and sustainability.
This project’s goals are:
- Exchange of good practices in approaches related to children that will eventually help reduce CRDs in the EU.
- Implement school-based lung function testing in children across the EU.
- Map out the needs for efficient and effective implementation.
- Identify and address societal, health and environmental inequalities.
- Educate on the risk factors that could cause CRDs.
- Detect early impaired lung function.
- Determine the frequency of lung function abnormalities among children of school age.
One of the LungHealth4Life’s partners, the European Federation of Allergy and Airways Diseases Patients’ Associations (EFA), are starting to gather experiences from people who have delivered or received health promotion in schools.
Sign up to the Community of Practice via the form on the Lungs Europe website.