Country Reports from the European Region

Asthma in the European region has different scenarios which are dependent on the peculiarities of each country and on how health authorities prioritise this condition. Here we have some examples of this diversity. All four countries included in this chapter participated in the Global Asthma Network (GAN) Phase I survey, thus their authors have very recent information: from the low prevalence in Kosovo either real or an effect of stigmatisation, or both, according to the investigators, to the problems derived from the immigrant population in Greece; and from the impact of environmental factors in Russia pushing asthma prevalence up, to the avoidable excess of deaths in Spain where 17 different regional health authorities look like the Tower of Babel.