RESOURCES BY CATEGORY

Health and Patient organizations
Health portals
Scientific societies
Public institutions
The GOLD initiative
Hospitals with respiratory websites
Smoking and smoking cessation
Rehabilitation
Medicine
Nutrition
Other
Danish Lung Association GOLD International Alfa-1 union Boserups Minde Asthma-Allergy Union Association for Cancer Prevention COPD International NLHEP - National Lung Help Education Program Ugeskrift for Læger - About COPD Netdoktor.dk - About COPD Sundhed.dk Netpatient.dk - About COPD European Respiratory Society American Thoracic Society Network of health promoting hospitals Danish Society of Respiratory Medicine BTS COPD Consortium National Board of Health - About COPD National Institute of Public Health Smoking cessation with Netdoktor.dk World COPD Day Xhale.dk - Smoking cessation for adolescents Medline Plus Gentofte County Hospital - Dept. of Respiratory Medicine Cancer Prevention - About smoking Hvidovre Hospital - Dept. of cardiology and Respiratory Medicine Rygerlunger.dk Aarhus Hospital - Dept. of Respiratory Medicine GOLD around the world DrStop - Individual help for smoking cessation TCRC register on smoking Tobacco Control Ressource Smoke-free hospitals Medicine Online WHO Tobacco Free Initiative (Engelsk) Better food for sick people Danish Veterinary and Food Administration - All about food Danish Medicines Agency - Medicine with common sense The World Bank Group - Economics of tobacco control Lungenettet.no

Health and Patient organizations

Danish Lung Association Danish Lung Association Fights against all respiratory diseases
Alfa-1 union Alfa-1 union For patients with Alfa-1-antitrypsin deficiency
Boserup Minde Boserup Minde Association for patients with lung disease
Asthma-Allergy union Asthma-Allergy union For patients with asthma or allergy
Association for Cancer Prevention Association for Cancer Prevention www.cancer.dk about smoking and smoking cessation
COPD International COPD International For patients with COPD
NLHEP National Lung Health Education program COPD initiative for patients and physicians

Health Portals

Sundhed.dk Sundhed.dk The Official Danish Health Portal
Netdoktor.dk Netdoktor.dk Health portal - Link to COPD information
NetPatient.dk NetPatient.dk Health information - Link to COPD area

Scientific associations

Dansk Society of Respiratory Medicine Danish Society of Respiratory Medicine Scientific society for Danish respiratory specialists
European Respiratory Society European Respiratory Society Scientific society for respiratory specialists in Europe
American Thoracic Society American Thoracic Society Scientific society for respiratory specialists in America
BTS COPD Consortium BTS COPD Consortium British Thoracic Society - COPD publications

Public institutions

Danish National Board of Health Danish National Board of Health National Board of Health - About COPD
Sundhed.dk Sundhed.dk The official Danish Health Portal
National Institute of Public Health National Institute of Public Health Research in COPD epidemiology and economics
MedLine Plus Medline Plus American official health portal - Link to COPD area

The GOLD Initiative

GOLD International GOLD International Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease
GOLD Italy GOLD Italy GOLD website, Italy
GOLD Brasil GOLD Brasil GOLD website, Brasil
GOLD around the world GOLD around the world GOLD activities - Listed by country
World COPD Day World COPD Day International ressource on World COPD Day
Ugeskrift for Læger Ugeskrift for Læger Danish weekly for doctors - About World COPD Day 2002

Hospitals with respiratory websites

Hvidovre Hospital Hvidovre Hospital Dept. of Cardiology and Respiratory Medicine
Gentofte County Hospital Gentofte County Hospital Dept. of Respiratory Medicine
Aarhus Hospital Aarhus Hospital Dept. of Respiratory Medicine

Smoking and smoking cessation

Xhale.dk Xhale.dk Smoking cessation for adolescents 
Association for Cancer Prevention Association for Cancer Prevention Website about smoking and smoking cessation
DrStop DrSTOP Individual net-based advise on smoking cessation
Netdoktor.dk Netdoktor.dk Smoking cessation with Netdoktor.dk
Tobacco Control Resource Tobacco Control Resource Centre European resource on tobacco control
Smoke-free hospitals The European Network for Smoke-free Hospitals European network for smoke-free hospitals
TCRC register TCRC register Facts on smoking and health, listed by country
WHO Tobacco Free Initiative WHO Tobacco Free Initiative Tobacco initiative with country-specific information
World Bank The World Bank Group Economics of tobacco control

Rehabilitation

Health Promoting Hospitals Health Promoting Hospitals Health Promoting Hospitals - COPD rehabilitation

Medicine

Medicine with sense Medicine with common sense Danish Medicines Agency - website for patients
Medicine Guide Handbook of Medicine Handbook of Medicine through Sundhed.dk
Medicine Online Medicine Online Medicine Online from Danish Information on Medicine

Nutrition

All about food All about food Official website with advise on food for COPD-patients
Food for sick people Food for sick people National Board of Health: About nutrition for patients

Other

Rygerlunger.dk Rygerlunger.dk Information about COPD (Boehringer Ingelheim, Pfizer)
Lungenettet Lungenettet.no Informative Norwegian website about lung diseases

Last update: June 21rd, 2006
Links checked: May 16th, 2005