Useful links
Global Alliance against Chronic Respiratory Diseases (GARD)
GARD is a voluntary alliance of national and international organizations, institutions, and agencies committed towards the common goal to reduce the global burden of respiratory diseases. The Global Alliance is part of the global work to prevent and control chronic diseases. Because most of the chronic respiratory diseases are under-diagnosed, under-treated and the access to essential medications in many countries is poor, a global effort to improve the diagnosis and the medical care is needed.
Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences
The inTool, available at www.ices.on.ca/intool, is a user-friendly, interactive, web-based application that provides information at the provincial, Local Health Integration Networks (LHIN) and sub-LHIN levels, in a variety of formats including graphs, tables and maps. All information can be printed and e-mailed, and everything is available in MS PowerPoint so that information can be incorporated into presentations and planning documents.
The Respiratory GREAT Network
The Respiratory GREAT Network is a partnership between the World Health Organization's (WHO) initiative Global Alliance against Chronic Respiratory Diseases (GARD) and the Research Institute at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Toronto.
Ontario Work-Related Asthma Surveillance (OWRAS)