Since 2002, the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) has been organizing World COPD Day in cooperation with the World Health Organization (WHO) to raise awareness for COPD worldwide. This year, on November 18, people from more than 50 countries are coming together to celebrate this year’s theme “Living Well With COPD - Everybody, Everywhere”. With more than 300 million current cases and an annual cost (ER visits, hospitalizations, lost productivity) of 49.9 billion USD, the complexity of COPD as a disease is evident and and raising awareness is a necessity. By participating in or hosting educational series, supporting safe breathing environments, advocating more research and accessibility to treatments such as spirometry and medications, we can all help support COPD awareness and management especially this November!
Click to register for GOLD’s “2020 International COPD and Asthma Conference” on November 16-17. Learn more about the COPD and Spirometer relationship.
This November, let’s all #GoOrange!
Sources
- Butanis, Benjamin. “November Is COPD Awareness Month.” Johns Hopkins Medicine, 9 June 2014
- “National COPD Awareness Month.” Personalized Cause
- “November Is National COPD Awareness Month.” National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, U.S., Department of Health and Human Services
- User, Super. “World COPD Day: All Together to End COPD.” FIRS, 11 Nov. 2019
- “World COPD Day - Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease.” GOLD, 16 Oct. 2020
