World Asthma Day

World Asthma Day 2002 is on 7 May and involves healthcare groups and asthma educators in raising awareness about asthma as a serious public health problem throughout the world.

World Asthma Day is held each May in order to increase awareness of asthma; communicate progress in treatment; and involve public authorities, professional organisations and patient groups in running effective management programmes.

Further information from the Global Initiative for Asthma website at www.ginasthma.com

* See Bargaining Report 224, February 2002 for news on the TUC report, No substitute for action on asthma, which used a safety rep survey to look at the issue of occupational asthma.