Friday, December 24, 2010

Monday, December 20, 2010

Short TIME-TABLE proposal for 2011 from Respiratory Decade

We present short TIME-TABLE proposal for 2011:

1. World Cancer Day (February 4, 2011)
2. World Rare Disease Day ( February 28, 2011)
3. World Sleep Day (March 19, 2011)
4. World TB Day (March 24, 2011)
5. Sarcoidosis Awareness Month (April)
6. World Health Day (April 7, 2011)
7. World Voice Day (April 16, 2011)
8. Breathe Easy Month (May)
9. Clean Air Month (May)
10. Asthma Awareness Month (May)
11. Better Sleep Month (May)
12. World Asthma Day (May 4, 2011)
13. World No Tobacco Day (May 31, 2011)
14. Cancer Survivors Day (June 6, 2011)
15. Immunization Awareness Month (August)
16. Healthy Lung Month (October)
17. Child Health Day (October 4, 2011)
18. World Spirometry Day (October 14, 2011)
19. Respiratory Care Week (October 24-30, 2011)
20. Lung Health Day (October 27, 2011)
21. Lung Cancer Awareness Month (November)
22. World Pneumonia Day (November 2, 2011)
23. World COPD Day (November 17, 2011)

Friday, December 17, 2010

RESPIRATORY DECADE 2011-2020 starts today


Year of the Lung is a successful campaign which emphasizes the importance of public awareness about respiratory diseases. That is why today we would like to suggest a possibility of continuation of promotion of lung health. Our proposal is to initiate a new campaign called RESPIRATORY DECADE 2011-2020 that will keep on distribution of health care resources.

What can we do for continuing success of Year of the Lung and advance of RESPIRATORY DECADE:

- Elaborate an electronic or paper bulletin of RESPIRATORY DECADE.

- Celebrate World Days of majority respiratory diseases and point at especially rare diseases

- Continue media campaign in all media sources.

- Involve world-known personalities in promotion.

- Organize special events dedicated to RESPIRATORY DECADE all over the world

We are happy to announce the 1st phase of our campaign: team building.
We invite all interested persons for elaboration of strategy of our campaign.

Today we start our blog RESPIRATORY DECADE for supporting our campaign.

Lung health is our priority.


Best regards,

Alexandru Corlateanu, MD, PhD
European Respiratory Society National Delegate for Republic of Moldova