Asthma's Impact on Society
Subtitle: The Social and Economic Burden (Lung Biology in Health and Disease, V. 138) (Lung Biology in Health and Disease, V. 138)
Publisher: Informa Healthcare
Published: October 27, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780824719425
Subjects: Illness & addiction: social aspects; Respiratory medicine; Service industries; Social aspects; Asthma; Sociology Of Medicine; Medical / Nursing; Medical; Health Care Delivery; Pulmonary & Thoracic Medicine; Medical / Pulmonary & Thoracic Medicine; Economic aspects
First sentence: Although much of the medical literature views asthma from the perspective of lung function and cellular immune function, this view is narrow in contrast to the comprehensive impact of the disease on an individual's life as a whole.