Fundació Roger Torné

Asthma and other children respiratory diseases. Excess or lack of information?

Logo "Para padres y madres" (For Parents)

It is two years ago that Fundació Roger Torné launched, on the occasion of World Asthma Day 2010, Para padres y madres (For parents), website on children’s respiratory health.

The project was started approximately one year earlier, when our Foundation was aware of the lack of information and of the need for quality contents that families had regarding respiratory diseases suffered by their sons and daughters, together with treatments, diagnosis, etc.

First of all, Fundació Roger Torné’s staff started a search on the different options offered by internet and it was then when we found out that there was no web for specific consulting regarding children’s respiratory health all over Europe, despite the alarming growth of asthma prevalence and respiratory diseases among children all over the world. This data convinced our foundation that it was necessary to put at families’ disposal qualified information on these subjects, offered by professionals on health; the information should be expressed through an informative and accessible language that could be understood by everybody.  The next step was to involve an excellent team of medical professionals, all of them working in public health, who elaborated the content “ad hoc”. (more…)

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