Impact on Lung Disease

There are many preventable risk factors you can do to prevent respiratory diseases like eating healthy, keeping an active lifestyle, and not smoking. There's something you can to do that will dramatically impact your health. Now, if you have been affected with lung disease there will be lasting affects on the body, and you won't live the life you wanted to, and you may need assistance. There's absolutely no doubt that lung disease has an impact on the individual self, due to the fact that lung disease damage is irreversible in majority of cases.

In spite of a large amount of medical information available in the media, insufficient use of media by cancer patients indicated the absence of appropriate media between the media and the patients. In conclusion, mass media should focus on raising awareness about prevention and treatment of lung cancer. This study can be a preliminary step in health communication research and may be used by researchers in terms of methodology and vision according to the National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease.

Lung diseases cost in Canadian economy is at $12 billion in 2010, according to analysis by The Conference Board of Canada. Overall, chronic lung disease accounts for more than 6% of annual health care costs in Canada, and COPD is the leading cause of hospitalization.

Because the impact is so large, it's devastating however that means a vast majority of people are affected. Losing loved ones, and patients is never easy. Due to the fact that lung disease does have a huge impact, it also affects the families invloved.

COPD being one of the major sources of morbidity, morality, and costs. Lung diseases are the biggest driver of these healthcare expenditures according to ATS Journals.

According to the US National Library of Medicine, an article I read highlights an observational experiment where they monitored a patient with COPD during the entire process. The results highlighted one theme: an altered everyday life. The altered everyday life leads to a need for support to handle everyday life.