The attainment of the highest level of respiratory health for all people. Achieving health equality requires valuing everyone equally, implementing and maintaining focused societal efforts to address avoidable inequalities and historical and contemporary injustices, and eliminating health care disparities.
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The American Thoracic Society improves global health by advancing research, patient care, and public health in pulmonary disease, critical illness, and sleep disorders. Founded in 1905 to combat TB, the ATS has grown to tackle asthma, COPD, lung cancer, sepsis, acute respiratory distress, and sleep apnea, among other diseases.
AMERICAN THORACIC SOCIETY
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New York, NY 10004
United States of America
Phone: +1 (212) 315-8600
Fax: +1 (212) 315-6498
Email: atsinfo@thoracic.org
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