Action for lung health in Belgium
Belgium have recently formed a national respiratory coalition to make lung health a priority in health policy. You can find out more about the coalition’s activities on the national project page.
Download a one-page report summarising the Belgian Lung Facts
in Belgium in 2021
*the societal economic cost of respiratory disease is generated using DALYs and the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita, to give a cost of the healthy years of life lost to help guide decision-making around health interventions. Visit the methodology section to learn more about this calculation.
Data from Belgium by disease
The charts below present data from GBD studies of people living with respiratory diseases to provide a uniform evaluation of the state of lung health. To find out more about how this data is put together, visit the methodology page. All charts are freely available to download by clicking the three dots in the top right hand corner. Please reference Lung Facts when sharing.
