A summary of statistics for respiratory ailments from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

This article presents an overview of European Union (EU) statistics related to diseases of the respiratory system and focuses on the following aspects: deaths from diseases of the respiratory system, healthcare for diseases of the respiratory system, and the availability of specialist healthcare personnel.

Provides the latest available statistics for each of the respiratory diseases including asthma as well as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Offers lung disease statistics.

Lists child death rate for respiratory disease by country.

The NHLBI stimulates basic discoveries about the causes of disease, enables the translation of basic discoveries into clinical practice, fosters training and mentoring of emerging scientists and physicians, and communicates research advances to the public. It creates and supports a robust, collaborative research infrastructure in partnership with private and public organizations, including academic institutions, industry, and other government agencies.

Gives financial outlook statistics about the respiratory therapy profession.

Healthy People provides science-based, 10-year national objectives for improving the health of all Americans. For 3 decades, Healthy People has established benchmarks and monitored progress over time in order to encourage collaborations across communities and sectors, empower individuals toward making informed health decisions, measure the impact of prevention activities.

The WHO Global Alliance against CRDs (GARD) has a vision of a world in which all people breathe freely, and focuses in particular on the needs of people with CRDs in low-income and middle-income countries.