World COPD Day

On World COPD Day 2010, ICC is issuing a call for submissions for a new project, our Evidence-Based Resource Center on COPD. The goal of this project is to create a collection of COPD therapies, devices, and types of care, and to evaluate these COPD resources drawing on the latest scientific research.

We also want to encourage health care professionals, government agencies, and patient advocacy groups to think more broadly about what helps patients with COPD—emphasizing the importance of pharmacologic therapy for the disease, but also including devices such as those used for oxygen therapy, and recognizing the importance of other interventions such as pulmonary rehabilitation for improving patients’ quality of life.

Do you have an idea for a resource that should be included in our project? Please let us know.

How You Can Get Involved

Join up with events that ICC member organizations in your area are hosting!  Or:

• COPD Patients: Use World COPD Day materials and your own story to inform your family, friends, and others in your community about COPD. 
• Health Care Professionals: Educate your patients with a display or handouts of World COPD Day materials.  Educate yourself and your peers with a seminar on COPD.
• Patient Organizations: Plan your own World COPD Day event!
• Media: Create a COPD question and answer feature. Cover World COPD Day events in your area.