Millions of people all over the world suffer from Asthma, which clearly shows that most of the population suffers from it. The sound of the inhalers that enable those who use them to lead a somewhat normal day-to-day life is often recognizable to those who have someone in their lives with asthma. World Asthma Day is to raise awareness about this challenging disease. It also aims to raise awareness and provide advanced asthma care to people all over the world.
So now is the perfect time to learn about and observe World Asthma Day!
World Asthma Day 2023 Theme
The theme for World Asthma Day in 2023 is “Asthma Care for All,” which promotes increased accessibility and availability of high-quality medical care to reduce the significantly high number of asthma-related deaths and hospitalizations in countries with low or middle incomes as a result of restricted access to asthma care.
The GINA works to urge all resource countries to design and implement comprehensive asthma management strategies that reduce global mortality and morbidity rates.
The theme for Asthma Day:
World Asthma Day 2018 (May 1): Never too early, never too late.
Importance of World Asthma Day
Asthma is the most common chronic disease in both children and adults worldwide. Asthma was identified by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and other regulatory bodies as both a cause and an effect of poverty in nations with low to middle incomes. According to the WHO, Asthma affected an estimated 262 million people in 2019 and caused 455000 deaths.
This year’s theme, “Asthma Care for All,” seeks to urge all resource-rich countries to develop and implement comprehensive asthma care initiatives that include, but are not limited to:
Pulmonologists are receiving up-to-date information on prevention, diagnosis, and therapy.
Free asthma screening clinic (one day) sponsored by a newspaper or pharmaceutical business.
Make a radio commercial about World Asthma Day, asthma control, strategies to improve it, and how it affects hospitalisation.
Plan a diagnostic, educational, and therapeutic bus trip or create a special bus to transport patients to clinics to reach rural areas.
On or before World Asthma Day, visit schools and do peak flow metre testing to educate youngsters.
Asthma information, therapies, control, and the link between uncontrolled asthma and hospitalisation in local hospitals are all displayed.
To develop an educational website with details on asthma clinics.
To raise awareness of World Asthma Day, the local region’s asthma burden, hospitalisations, and asthma control among local and national media.
To seek the help of asthmatic politicians and celebrities.
To ask local celebrities and asthmatics to join in World Asthma Day-sponsored walks, runs, swims, and soccer games.
Prevention of World Asthma Day
Asthma can be avoided by following the steps below:
Avoiding asthma triggers such as air pollution, chilly air, perfumes, and so on.
Avoid coming into contact with allergies.
Smoke from cigarettes, candles, incense, and fireworks should be avoided.
Keeping away from sick people (whether they have a cold or the flu).
Keep the environment dust-free.
Getting vaccines on time to protect against pneumonia, diphtheria, tetanus, zoster, and whooping cough.
Asthma medicine is taken as prescribed.
Wrapping Thoughts
To Summarize, World Asthma Day is an opportunity to promote worldwide asthma awareness and advocate for better asthma care, with the ultimate goal of improving the quality of life for people with asthma around the globe.
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The theme for World Asthma Day in 2023 is “Asthma Care for All,” which promotes increased accessibility and availability of high-quality medical care to reduce the significantly high number of asthma-related deaths and hospitalizations in countries with low or middle incomes as a result of restricted access to asthma care.
The GINA works to urge all resource countries to design and implement comprehensive asthma management strategies that reduce global mortality and morbidity rates.
The theme for Asthma Day:
Asthma is the most common chronic disease in both children and adults worldwide. Asthma was identified by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and other regulatory bodies as both a cause and an effect of poverty in nations with low to middle incomes. According to the WHO, Asthma affected an estimated 262 million people in 2019 and caused 455000 deaths.
This year’s theme, “Asthma Care for All,” seeks to urge all resource-rich countries to develop and implement comprehensive asthma care initiatives that include, but are not limited to:
Asthma can be avoided by following the steps below:
