EHTEL focuses on how health and care systems can use digital technologies to contribute to people's better health. With this goal in mind, we add our support to Lovexair, one of our members, in encouraging as many people as possible to provide data in support of public health research, more specifically to a global lung health map.
Adding data to a global lung health map
Why add data? It will show that digital technology can be used to add all the information needed to:
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Assess, monitor, and improve air quality.
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Improve the quality of data.
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Link together two helpful, major types of data:
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data about people's individual health status ('primary data')
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data that can inform policy and decision-making about people's health ('secondary data').
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Implicitly support the work of the European Health Data Space.
What is Lovexair doing?
Lovexair is supporting the global Clean Air, Healthy Lives campaign. The Lovexair Foundation, a civil society organisation, is affirming its commitment to the fight for clean and healthy air for all. On 25 March 2025, the foundation leads off a global campaign to make air cleaner via the use of digital technologies, apps and databases. The launch takes place at a World Health Organization-led conference in Cartagena, Colombia in Latin America.