This is the presentation of Dr Dean E Schraufnagel, Director of Forum of International Respiratory Societies (FIRS), which he presented in the Webinar in lead up to first-ever World Lung Day.
World Lung Day will be observed globally on 25th September 2017.
Hunger for air is a terrible curse for too many people. This is why Forum of International Respiratory Societies (FIRS) and partners are joining forces globally to put lung health in spotlight.
WEBINAR PANEL OF EXPERTS INCLUDED:
Dr Dean E Schraufnagel
Director, Forum of International Respiratory Societies (FIRS)
and Professor, Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep, and Allergy
Department of Medicine, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA
and
Dr Paula I Fujiwara
Scientific Director,
International Union Against TB and Lung Disease (The Union)
For more information go to: http://www.citizen-news.org/2017/09/call-to-register-world-lung-day-webinar.html
Thanks
CNS Webinars Team
Email: webinar@citizen-news.org
Website: www.citizen-news.org
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Presentation of Dr Dean E Schraufnagel, Director, FIRS in 2017 World Lung Day Webinar
This is the presentation of Dr Dean E Schraufnagel, Director of Forum of International Respiratory Societies (FIRS), which he presented in the Webinar in lead up to first-ever World Lung Day.
World Lung Day will be observed globally on 25th September 2017.
Hunger for air is a terrible curse for too many people. This is why Forum of International Respiratory Societies (FIRS) and partners are joining forces globally to put lung health in spotlight.
WEBINAR PANEL OF EXPERTS INCLUDED:
Dr Dean E Schraufnagel
Director, Forum of International Respiratory Societies (FIRS)
and Professor, Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep, and Allergy
Department of Medicine, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA
and
Dr Paula I Fujiwara
Scientific Director,
International Union Against TB and Lung Disease (The Union)
For more information go to: http://www.citizen-news.org/2017/09/call-to-register-world-lung-day-webinar.html
Thanks
CNS Webinars Team
Email: webinar@citizen-news.org
Website: www.citizen-news.org
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This is the presentation of Dr Dean E Schraufnagel, Director of Forum of International Respiratory Societies (FIRS), which he presented in the Webinar in lead up to first-ever World Lung Day.
World Lung Day will be observed globally on 25th September 2017.
Hunger for air is a terrible curse for too many people. This is why Forum of International Respiratory Societies (FIRS) and partners are joining forces globally to put lung health in spotlight.
WEBINAR PANEL OF EXPERTS INCLUDED:
Dr Dean E Schraufnagel
Director, Forum of International Respiratory Societies (FIRS)
and Professor, Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep, and Allergy
Department of Medicine, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA
and
Dr Paula I Fujiwara
Scientific Director,
International Union Against TB and Lung Disease (The Union)
For more information go to: http://www.citizen-news.org/2017/09/call-to-register-world-lung-day-webinar.html
Thanks
CNS Webinars Team
Email: webinar@citizen-news.org
Website: www.citizen-news.org
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are going to be successful, we must address the burden of lung disease Non-communicable disease burden Non-communicable diseases account for about of worlds deaths each year More than 40% are premature and preventable Cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and lung disease account for the majority of deaths, disability, and financial cost. Lung disease Of the NCDs, respiratory diseases are the least recognized, least represented Perhaps because we take breathing for granted Perhaps proponents have not been vocal enough Burden: COPD More than 65 million people suffer from COPD 3 million die from it each year The third leading cause of death worldwide The numbers are increasing Burden: Asthma About 334 million people suffer from asthma Most common chronic disease of childhood Affect 14% of children globally Its prevalence in children is rising Burden: Pneumonia Among top causes of death for decades Causes about 4 million deaths annually Leading cause of death in children under five (outside the neonatal period) Burden: Tuberculosis 10.4 million cases annually (2015) 1.4 million deaths Most fatal infectious disease Burden: Lung cancer Most common lethal neoplasm in the world It kills 1.6 million people each year In many countries, more death than the next 4 cancers combined The numbers are growing Burden: Sleep apnoea More than 100 million people suffer from sleep- disordered breathing Affect 5 to 10% of adults in many settings Burden: Occupational lung disease More than 50 million people struggle with occupational lung diseases. Work places mineral and organic dusts, bioaerosols, and fumes Burden: Pulmonary hypertension Pulmonary hypertension occurs in 1% of the worlds population 10% of those over 65 years of age Burden: Pulmonary embolism Reported at 6-20 per hundred thousand Grossly underestimated Mild: go unnoticed Terminal: attributed to other conditions Pollution and climate change Lungs on the front line Polluted air enters through the lungs Global warming air pollution Warming changes habitats Changing habitat infection patterns Emergency preparedness Causative agents disseminated through air Outbreaks of viral pandemics lungs Chemical and biologic warfare or terrorism Environmental exposure & lung disease 2 billion people exposed to indoor smoke 1 billion inhale outdoor polluted air 1 billion are exposed to tobacco smoke Premature deaths Four million people die prematurely from chronic respiratory disease annually. Forum of International Respiratory Societies
Recommendations Recommendation 1
Increase public and policy makers awareness that
respiratory health is essential to global health and that childhood respiratory disease may have long- term negative consequences on adult health by advocating at world health meetings and through publications and media postings Recommendation 2
Reduce, and then eliminate, the use of all tobacco
products through universal support of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Recommendation 3
Adopt WHO [air quality] standards, at a minimum, to
reduce ambient, indoor, and occupational air pollution for all countries
Everyone has the right to breathe clean air!
Recommendation 4
Promote universal access to quality healthcare,
including the availability of affordable, quality- assured, essential medicines and universal coverage for childhood and adult immunisations, including new conjugate vaccines by advocacy through WHO and government programmes Recommendation 5
Improve early diagnosis of respiratory diseases
through improving awareness and access to current procedures and the development of new tools through world health meetings and publications Recommendation 6
Increase education and training of health
professionals in respiratory disease worldwide though programmes of the FIRS societies, WHO and other governmental and non-governmental organisations Recommendation 7
Standardise the monitoring of the prevalence,
severity and management of respiratory diseases to enable development of well- informed national strategies though programmes of WHO and governmental and non-governmental organisations Recommendation 8
Increase respiratory research to develop
programmes, tools and strategies to better prevent and treat respiratory diseases though advocacy for governmental and non-governmental research organisations How can this be done? Enlisting broad support Invigorating organizations Increasing awareness
Goal of World Lung Day
FIRS Organizations Charter for Lung Health Calls for Clean air and healthy lungs Raised awareness Improved health care access Eliminate preventable disease Research and education Charter for Lung Health 100,000 individuals to sign on http://www.firsnet.org/ All health organizations Send assent to charter, logo, contact information to: Dean.Schraufnagel@firsnet.org Alleviating burden of lung disease must be a main strategy of SDGs and requirement for nations
Goals are achievable
Ability to control, prevent, and cure respiratory
diseases cost-effective Paula Fujiwara, MD Scientific Director The Union Highlight the activities of one of the FIRS organizations FIRS Organizations