Issue | Speaker |
Welcome | Ass. Professor Karin C. Lødrup Carlsen |
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 |
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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