Asthma Healing

The world is a commemorative activity that is put out by World Health Organization on the Asthma Day, its purpose is to let people strengthen the knowledge of asthma current situation and strengthen prevention and cure and management of this disease of patient and the public. On December 11, 1998, the opening sun of the second Meeting of asthma of world held in Barcelona of Spain was had, global asthma prevent and cure, create, discuss committee with Europe breathe, learn, get on behalf of World Health Organization out of and develop the activity of the Asthma Day of world, regard the same day as the first world the Asthma Day. From 2000, relevant activities are held first Tuesday of every May every year, but following world changes into.

The world is a commemorative activity that is put out by World Health Organization on the Asthma Day, its purpose is to let people strengthen the knowledge of asthma current situation and strengthen prevention and cure and management of this disease of patient and the public. On December 11, 1998, the opening sun of the second Meeting of asthma of world held in Barcelona of Spain was had, global asthma prevent and cure, create, discuss committee with Europe breathe, learn, get on behalf of World Health Organization out of and develop the activity of the Asthma Day of world, regard the same day as the first world the Asthma Day. From 2000, relevant activities are held first Tuesday of every May every year, but following world changes into.

The aim of the Asthma Day of world is:

 Make people realize asthma is a global health problem, propagate the scientific and technological progress already made, impel the public and office procedure about participating in implementing effectively in the authorities.

Asthma is that a kind of pathogenic factor is complicated, do not still radically treat the chronic breathing problem of the method at present. This kind of disease can take place in any age bracket, but occur frequently with children. According to statistics that the hygiene department announces, patient's total number of global asthma has already exceeded 150 million people at present, and the ill rate presents the trend of rising year by year, more than 100,000 people die of this kind of disease every year. The morbidity in the industrialized developed country of this kind of disease has been remaining high all the time, among them the morbidity in countries such as U.S.A., Britain, Australia and New Zealand,etc. is up to 10% to 30%.

Asthma has already become the second major breathing problem of China at present, among them the morbidity of children and the elderly is 2% to 3%. In order to prevent and cure this kind of disease effectively, China has already set up more than 100 " asthma club " and " home of asthma " in 50 cities.

World asthma calendar year theme:

Will it be December 11 1998, theme" whether children to help us breathe "

will it be May 8 2000, theme to " let everybody normal breathing "

will it be May 3 2001, the theme " jointed together and overcame asthma "

in May 7, 2002, the theme " realized asthma "

in May 6, 2003, the theme " paid attention to asthma, health life "

in May 4, 2004, the theme was to " pay attention to asthma, lighten the burden "

by May 3, 2005, the theme is " need which the asthma patient has not met ", the theme of our country " pays attention to asthma, know the anaphylactic rhinitis ".

On May 2, 2006, the theme is " origin and aim of the Asthma Day of world which the asthma patient has not met .