Poland Severe Asthma Index

Poland’s Policy Context score is slightly below the average. On the positive side, Poland reports a relatively solid asthma strategy and the existence of severe asthma registries. However, Poland’s score is undercut by the absence of severe asthma guidelines, relatively poor alignment of national care guidelines with international guidelines, and limited tobacco control laws. In terms of Access and Care Coverage, Poland also scores below average. Limited access to treatment, including biologics, and diagnostics based on FeNO as well as relatively high unmet needs lower Poland’s score in this category. This is somewhat counterbalanced by high levels of access to diagnostics based on inflammatory phenotyping as well as to specialist care. However, Poland is among the highest scoring in Health System Characteristics, resulting from a lower-than-average number of annual asthma hospitalisations and average number of days in hospital due to asthma and one of the highest numbers of respiratory specialists.