title: Global impact of COPD.
abstract: COPD remains a public health problem that has yet to be fully recognized by the public, the medical community or public health (government) officials, and much work remains to be done worldwide to reverse the increasing trends of this chronic lung disease.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hurd
mesh_terms: D014943:Global Health; D006265:Health Care Coalitions; D006801:Humans; D038622:Internationality; D015995:Prevalence; D029424:Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control