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Integrated Care Pathways for Airway Diseases Chronic respiratory diseases are major noncommunicable diseases causing a high burden to society. The European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing was established with the overarching target to increase the average healthy life by 2 years by 2020 and the Integrated Care Pathways for Airway
Henrik Sorensen
See Online for Jean Bousquet’s podcast on the pathways project
Diseases (AIRWAYS-ICPs) was initiated by area 5 of the action plan B3 of the Partnership to develop multisectoral care pathways for chronic respiratory diseases in European countries and regions. AIRWAYSICPs goals include proposing a common framework of care pathways for chronic respiratory diseases, informing cost-effective policy development, aiding risk stratification in patients with chronic disease, having a notable effect on the health of citizens through the reduction of morbidity and the promotion of healthy ageing, and ultimately reducing the health-care burden (emergency visits, avoidable hospitalisations, disability, and costs) while improving quality of life. In this month’s issue of The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, Jean Bousquet (University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France) who is leading the pathways project, talks to us in a podcast about the ongoing projects and aims for the future.
Diana Stanley
Cover story Take a deep breath in
Jayne Wilton
Although most of my work focuses on making exhaled breath visible, I am also intrigued by the in-breath, which is more challenging to capture without clinical equipment. Recently, I have been exploring media that allow me to make visible both the inhaled and exhaled breath. The resulting work, Round, is a series of sculptures that show the dynamics of the full breathing cycle. One of these sculptures is featured on the cover of this issue. Round uses molten glass to capture breathing, in particular inhalation. I created the sculptures using traditional glassblowing processes, which involve exhaling
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into molten glass through a pipe. However, unlike traditional glassblowing, before the glass had cooled I inhaled back into the pipe. The resultant lung-like form shows the force and motion of the inhalation. The idea of a breath turning back in on itself was one of my core considerations for creating the Round series, as were the ideas of liminality and palimpsests; at every moment we overwrite each breathing gesture with that of the next.
Jayne Wilton
www.thelancet.com/respiratory Vol 4 February 2016
Integrated Care Pathways for Airway Diseases Chronic respiratory diseases are major noncommunicable diseases causing a high burden to society. The European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing was established with the overarching target to increase the average healthy life by 2 years by 2020 and the Integrated Care Pathways for Airway
Henrik Sorensen
See Online for Jean Bousquet’s podcast on the pathways project
Diseases (AIRWAYS-ICPs) was initiated by area 5 of the action plan B3 of the Partnership to develop multisectoral care pathways for chronic respiratory diseases in European countries and regions. AIRWAYSICPs goals include proposing a common framework of care pathways for chronic respiratory diseases, informing cost-effective policy development, aiding risk stratification in patients with chronic disease, having a notable effect on the health of citizens through the reduction of morbidity and the promotion of healthy ageing, and ultimately reducing the health-care burden (emergency visits, avoidable hospitalisations, disability, and costs) while improving quality of life. In this month’s issue of The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, Jean Bousquet (University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France) who is leading the pathways project, talks to us in a podcast about the ongoing projects and aims for the future.
Diana Stanley
Cover story Take a deep breath in
Jayne Wilton
Although most of my work focuses on making exhaled breath visible, I am also intrigued by the in-breath, which is more challenging to capture without clinical equipment. Recently, I have been exploring media that allow me to make visible both the inhaled and exhaled breath. The resulting work, Round, is a series of sculptures that show the dynamics of the full breathing cycle. One of these sculptures is featured on the cover of this issue. Round uses molten glass to capture breathing, in particular inhalation. I created the sculptures using traditional glassblowing processes, which involve exhaling
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into molten glass through a pipe. However, unlike traditional glassblowing, before the glass had cooled I inhaled back into the pipe. The resultant lung-like form shows the force and motion of the inhalation. The idea of a breath turning back in on itself was one of my core considerations for creating the Round series, as were the ideas of liminality and palimpsests; at every moment we overwrite each breathing gesture with that of the next.
Jayne Wilton
www.thelancet.com/respiratory Vol 4 February 2016
