Open AccessAsthma control in adults – unfinished business!
Author(s) -
Umesh Lalloo
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
south african respiratory journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2304-0017
DOI - 10.7196/sarj.2015.v21i4.50
Subject(s) - asthma , control (management) , medicine , economic growth , intensive care medicine , family medicine , development economics , economics , management , immunology
Asthma treatment has advanced tremendously in the last 3 decades. Medical science has provided evidence based treatment strategies to control over 90% of persons afflicted with asthma. Evidence of the efficacy of this strategy is manifest significantly by a reduction in asthma mortality globally. South Africa, despite being one of the most resourced country on the African continent still has an unacceptably high mortality (1).