Nordic Seminar 2007 "Strategies to combat chronic respiratory diseases"

300 million people have asthma, more than 200 million people have COPD while millions of others have allergic rhinitis and other chronic respiratory diseases. The Norwegian society of Allergology and Immunopathology, the Norwegian Ministry of Health, Global Alliance against chronic Respiratory Disease GARD - WHO and The Norwegian Asthma and Allergy Foundation in collaboration with GA2len meet to discuss strategies to combat chronic respiratory diseases.

11. juni 2012

Issue	Speaker
Welcome Practical Information	Ass. Professor Karin C. Lødrup Carlsen Chairman NFAI
Opening of symposium	Vegard Harsvik State Secretary, Deputy Minister of Health
Part 1: Burden and challenge of respiratory disease
Why does the WHO worry ? -The global chronic respiratory diseases epidemics	Dr. Alvaro A. Cruz World Health Organisation
A real global challenge ? -The Global Alliance against Chronic Respiratory Diseases (GARD)	Professor Jean Bousquet President of GARD
Does the Norwegian Medical Association worry enough ?	Dr Torunn Janbu President of Norwegian Medical Association
The importance of early life events in the prevention and control of chronic respiratory diseases	Professor Kai-Håkon Carlsen The Norwegian GARD representative and Chairman of the European Lung Foundation
Part 2: How to meet the challenges
What and how should the non-health-profession society change ?	Mr Geir Endregard General secretary. The Norwegian Asthma- and Allergy Association
The European patients approach to fight respiratory diseases ?	Mr Svein Myrseth Chairman. The European Federation of Asthma and allergy
A new strategy to combat asthma, allergy in Norway	Dr Anders Smith Senior Advisor. The Norwegian Ministry of Health
The Finnish strategy to combat allergies the next 10 years	Professor Tari Haahtela Chairman. The Finnish Allergy Programme 2008-2018 and the Finnish National Institute of Public Health
The Baltic perspective on combating allergic disease	Professor Arunas Valiulis University og Vilnius. Lithuania
Panel discussion
Summary and close	Dr Anders Smith The Norwegian Ministry of Health

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