Transcript WASOGBAL 2011 June 15-18th, Maastricht the Netherlands 2nd 10th WASOG meeting; 12th BAL conference joint Meeting of WASOG and the International Conference on BAL Multidisciplinary teamwork.

WASOGBAL 2011
June 15-18th, Maastricht
the Netherlands
2nd
10th WASOG meeting; 12th BAL conference
joint Meeting of WASOG and the International Conference on BAL
Multidisciplinary teamwork in
sarcoidosis and other
interstitial lung diseases
WASOGBAL 2011
June 15-18, 2011 Maastricht, NL
2nd joint Meeting of WASOG and the International Conference on BAL
10th WASOG meeting, 12th BAL conference
Fine dust and most other airborne pollution
is invisible and therefore doesn’t attract
much attention of the general public.
However, with almost 20,000 subjects
dying yearly in the Netherlands 10 years
earlier than expected due to this exposure,
it is a silent killer.
It is what smoking was 50 years ago.
WASOGBAL 2011
June 15-18, 2011 Maastricht, NL
2nd joint Meeting of WASOG and the International Conference on BAL
10th WASOG meeting, 12th BAL conference
The present EU legislation
(as well as the Dutch legislation)
concerning Particulate Matter (PM)
and Nitric Oxide (NOx) is not based
(anymore) on our present scientific
knowledge on the harm for children,
elderly and patients with
cardiovascular of pulmonary diseases.
WASOGBAL 2011
June 15-18, 2011 Maastricht, NL
2nd joint Meeting of WASOG and the International Conference on BAL
10th WASOG meeting, 12th BAL conference
More research is urgently
needed to define
which parts of PM are associated
with (the risk of)
cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases.
WASOGBAL 2011
June 15-18, 2011 Maastricht, NL
2nd joint Meeting of WASOG and the International Conference on BAL
10th WASOG meeting, 12th BAL conference
A clean environment and the long-term
health consequences are paying off on
the long run and can never be an excuse
for local or national administrators to
endanger the life of school children
because of economic benefit:
Schools should never be placed within
300 ms of a highway and existing schools
should be replaced.
WASOGBAL 2011
June 15-18, 2011 Maastricht, NL
2nd joint Meeting of WASOG and the International Conference on BAL
10th WASOG meeting, 12th BAL conference
Invest in prevention!
To prevent is not only better,
but also cheaper than to treat.
WASOGBAL 2011
June 15-18, 2011 Maastricht, NL
2nd joint Meeting of WASOG and the International Conference on BAL
10th WASOG meeting, 12th BAL conference
The poor performance of
national registry programs
for occupational respiratory
disorders reflects the physicians’
perception that looking for
the causal agent is not relevant.