Changing face of Chest Medicine
Journal Title: Journal of the Indian Medical Association - Year 2019, Vol 117, Issue 7
Abstract
It is our pleasure and honour to present a special issue of JIMA on CHEST MEDICINE before you. As we are nearing the end of second decade of 21st century, respiratory diseases are posing a great challenge to the public health problem in India. According to a report by World Health Organization, the deaths due to lung diseases in India are on rise accounting for 11% of total deaths. India has the dubious distinction of remaining on the top of the world in lung disease deaths. India having 18% of global population has a disproportionally high burden of chronic respiratory diseases. Incidence of chest diseases like chronic obstructive lung disease (COPD),asthma, pneumonia, tuberculosis (TB), interstitial lung diseases (ILD), Lung Cancer and obstructive sleep apnea(OSA) is increasing day by day. COPD is one of the leading non-communicable diseases in India. This increase in COPD has occurred despite a shift away from using biomass (woods and dried cow dung) as fuel in our Country. Unprecedented increase in air pollution is said to be the cause of epidemic of lung diseases. National Health Policy of India 2017 recommends that premature mortality from noncommunicable diseases like COPD should be reduced by 25% by 2025.
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DR PROF D P SINGH
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