Society and Culture
It is a challenge for many health systems to ensure appropriate identification, diagnosis and care for people with COPD; Britain's Department of Health has identified this as a major issue for the National Health Service and has introduced a specific strategy for COPD to tackle these problems.
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Famous quotes containing the words society and/or culture:
“A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children’s speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie.... Children have been treated ... as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.”
—Beatrix Campbell (b. 1947)
“There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness.”
—George Steiner (b. 1929)