Top 10 and Priority Shortlists
Explore the Adult Top 10 and Children and Young People’s Top 10, along with the shortlists of 27 adult and 24 children and young people’s priorities.
Participants also highlighted important areas they felt should remain visible alongside the final priorities. These are captured below in the Priority Spotlight section.
A further message came through clearly: Research should distinguish between the effects of race, socioeconomic factors and other determinants of respiratory health, rather than treating them as interchangeable.
Adult – Top 10
Children & Young People – Top 10
Adult – Shortlist
Children & Young People – Shortlist
Priority Spotlight
Indoor and outdoor air pollution
Indoor and outdoor air pollution emerged as distinct questions during the Equal Breath process (Priorities 18 and 25). At the final workshop, participants asked that these issues be signalled within Priority 8, ensuring that the potential effects of both indoor and outdoor environmental exposures remain visible when this priority is taken forward.
Hay fever
Hay fever emerged as a distinct question during the Equal Breath process (Priority 20). Participants specifically asked that it remain visible because they felt the impact of hay fever can be overlooked or underestimated, including its effect on everyday life and the additional impact on parents, carers and family members.
Shared Priorities Across Generations
Two themes appeared in both the Adult Top 10 and the Children and Young People’s Top 10:
Being heard and treated fairly in healthcare
Both groups prioritised questions about how Black people with breathing conditions are listened to, treated and taken seriously within healthcare, including the impact of racism and experiences of being dismissed.
Family history and genetics
Both groups also prioritised how family history and genetics could be better used to support earlier diagnosis and treatment of breathing conditions in Black communities.