Zhen-Cheng Wang

Tobacco Use and COPD in Australian Adults: Disease Burden, Risk Factors, and Public Health Interventions

Tobacco use is the single largest preventable risk factor for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) in Australia. Despite decades of public health campaigns, COPD imposes a massive burden on the Australian health system in terms of deaths, hospitalisations and Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs). Through a sy...