Vilnius Declaration on chronic respiratory diseases : multisectoral care pathways embedding guided self-management, mHealth and air pollution in chronic respiratory diseases

Correction: Volume: 10 Issue: 1 Article Number: 49 DOI: 10.1186/s13601-020-00357-4 Published: DEC 17 2020Background: Over 1 billion people suffer from chronic respiratory diseases such as asthma, COPD, rhinitis and rhinosinusitis. They cause an enormous burden and are considered as major non-communicable diseases. Many patients are still uncontrolled and the cost of inaction is unacceptable. A meeting was held in Vilnius, Lithuania (March 23, 2018) under the patronage of the Ministry of Health and several scientific societies to propose multisectoral care pathways embedding guided self-management, mHealth and air pollution in selected chronic respiratory diseases (rhinitis, chronic rhinosinusitis, asthma and COPD). The meeting resulted in the Vilnius Declaration that was developed by the participants of the EU Summit on chronic respiratory diseases under the leadership of Euforea. Conclusion: The Vilnius Declaration represents an important step for the fight against air pollution in chronic respiratory diseases globally and has a clear strategic relevance with regard to the EU Health Strategy as it will bring added value to the existing public health knowledge.Peer reviewe

Correction to: Vilnius Declaration on chronic respiratory diseases: multisectoral care pathways embedding guided self-management, mHealth and air pollution in chronic respiratory diseases (Clinical and Translational Allergy, (2019), 9, 1, (7), 10.1186/s13601-019-0242-2)

© 2020, The Author(s). Following publication of the original article [1], in issue was identified with distinguishing the 1st from the 41st authors, both named ‘A. Valiulis’. This caused errors with correctly linking these authors on third party indexing websites. The author names for the 1st and 41st author have been expanded to Arunas Valiulis and Algirdas Valiulis in the author list of this Correction article, in order to circumvent the linking errors. In addition, the presentation of affiliation 1 has been corrected. Affiliation 1 was originally presented as ‘Department of Public Health, Clinic of Children’s Diseases, and Institute of Health Sciences, Vilnius University Institute of Clinical Medicine, Vilnius, Lithuania.’ This affiliation is corrected in the affiliation list of this Correction article to ‘Department of Public Health, Institute of Health Sciences, and Clinic of Children’s Diseases, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Vilnius University Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius, Lithuania’