World Lung Day 2023—Access to prevention and treatment for all, leave no one behind.

World Lung Day 2023 - Access to prevention and treatment for all, leave no one behind Keywords: equal access; prevention; treatment EN equal access prevention treatment 989 991 3 10/20/23 20231101 NES 231101 Summary World Lung Day 2023 calls for increased global awareness for and action towards better respiratory health, which is particularly relevant for the Asian Pacific region given the burden of disease, large population and socio-economic conditions. Limited access to smoking cessation therapies, however, will lead to increasing chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases and lung cancer, and related co-morbidities of cardiac and cerebrovascular diseases, metabolic diseases and even more anxiety and depressive illness. [Extracted from the article]