About this Digest on Respiratory Diseases
1. Sources for this Digest
Chantal Bruetschy, head of the Health and Urban Areas Unit of DG-EnvironmentWe appreciate the way GreenFacts has summarised the Baseline Report on Respiratory Health drawn up by a group of scientific experts under the Environment & Health strategy. GreenFacts' summaries are faithful to our report, while making it accessible to a much wider audience.
Prof. Peter Helms, Department of Children Health, University of Aberdeen & co-chair of the subgroup "Respiratory Health" of the EU's Technical Working Group on priority diseasesI am pleased to see that the issues relevant to the respiratory health of children, and to the health of the coming generations of European adults may now reach a wider audience. The challenges ahead are considerable but the health gains are surely worth the effort
The material content of the texts on Level 3 is
directly sourced from the
The Levels 1 & 2 were written by Prof. Benoit Nemery and Dr. Tim Nawrot in collaboration with the GreenFacts editorial team.
2. Current Status
Approved for publication by the GreenFacts Scientific Board.
3. Digest Publication History
The GreenFacts publication process is designed to ensure as high a degree of objectivity as possible.
First draft
The first draft of this Digest was produced by Prof. Benoit Nemery and Dr. Tim Nawrot on 30 June 2005 on the basis of a canvas prepared by the GreenFacts Team.
Second draft
The second draft of this Digest was produced in July 2005 by Prof. Benoit Nemery and Dr. Tim Nawrot after review by the GreenFacts Team.
Preliminary and Peer review
The final draft of this Digest was produced on 13
october 2005 by by Prof. Benoit Nemery and Dr. Tim
Nawrot after pre-review by experts from environmental
and industrial organizations (see our 
Publication
Final publication was authorized by the President of the GreenFacts Scientific Board on 24 October 2005.
Press Release
1 Mar. 2006:
Respiratory diseases in children. Read the Press Release.
Updates or subsequent post-publication revisions
No update or revision at present.
