This review analyzes the state and recent progress in the field of information support for pollen allergy sufferers.For decades,information available for the patients and allergologists consisted of pollen counts,whic...This review analyzes the state and recent progress in the field of information support for pollen allergy sufferers.For decades,information available for the patients and allergologists consisted of pollen counts,which are vital but insufficient.New technology paves the way to substantial increase in amount and diversity of the data.This paper reviews old and newly suggested methods to predict pollen and air pollutant concentrations in the air and proposes an allergy risk concept,which combines the pollen and pollution information and transforms it into a qualitative risk index.This new index is available in an app(Mobile Airways Sentinel NetworK-air)that was developed in the frame of the European Union grant Impact of Air POLLution on sleep,Asthma and Rhinitis(a project of European Institute of Innovation and Technology-Health).On-going transformation of the pollen allergy information support is based on new technological solutions for pollen and air quality monitoring and predictions.The new information-technology and artificial-intelligence-based solutions help to convert this information into easy-to-use services for both medical practitioners and allergy sufferers.展开更多
The Global Alliance Against Chronic Respiratory Diseases(GARD)is a voluntary alliance of national and international organizations,institutions,and agencies committed to the vision of "a world where all people bre...The Global Alliance Against Chronic Respiratory Diseases(GARD)is a voluntary alliance of national and international organizations,institutions,and agencies committed to the vision of "a world where all people breathe freely"Its goal is to reduce the global burden of chronic respiratory disease(CRD).The GARD initiative was set up to respond to a resolution of the World Health Assembly in May 2000(Resolution WHA53.17)that emphasized the need to increase awareness of the growing epidemic of CRDs worldwide.A program was begun to design a comprehensive approach to the prevention and control of CRDs.11,21 The resolution was approved by the General Assembly of World Health Organization(WHO)in 2004.展开更多
文摘This review analyzes the state and recent progress in the field of information support for pollen allergy sufferers.For decades,information available for the patients and allergologists consisted of pollen counts,which are vital but insufficient.New technology paves the way to substantial increase in amount and diversity of the data.This paper reviews old and newly suggested methods to predict pollen and air pollutant concentrations in the air and proposes an allergy risk concept,which combines the pollen and pollution information and transforms it into a qualitative risk index.This new index is available in an app(Mobile Airways Sentinel NetworK-air)that was developed in the frame of the European Union grant Impact of Air POLLution on sleep,Asthma and Rhinitis(a project of European Institute of Innovation and Technology-Health).On-going transformation of the pollen allergy information support is based on new technological solutions for pollen and air quality monitoring and predictions.The new information-technology and artificial-intelligence-based solutions help to convert this information into easy-to-use services for both medical practitioners and allergy sufferers.
文摘The Global Alliance Against Chronic Respiratory Diseases(GARD)is a voluntary alliance of national and international organizations,institutions,and agencies committed to the vision of "a world where all people breathe freely"Its goal is to reduce the global burden of chronic respiratory disease(CRD).The GARD initiative was set up to respond to a resolution of the World Health Assembly in May 2000(Resolution WHA53.17)that emphasized the need to increase awareness of the growing epidemic of CRDs worldwide.A program was begun to design a comprehensive approach to the prevention and control of CRDs.11,21 The resolution was approved by the General Assembly of World Health Organization(WHO)in 2004.
