China CDC holds training sessions on COPD

November 16 marks the "World Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases (COPD) Day". With the theme of "Your Lungs for Life", this year's event highlighted the importance of lifelong lung health.

  

To improve the comprehensive capacity of disease control and prevention systems at all levels, the National Center for Chronic and Noncommunicable Disease Control and Prevention (NCNCD) of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC) held an online training session on comprehensive capacity building for preventing and controlling of COPD.

  

More than 2, 000 people, including medical staff from disease prevention and control centers, healthcare centers, and medical institutions at different levels across the country, participated in the training session through on- and offline. Wu Jing, director of the NCNCD, attended the opening ceremony and delivered a speech. 

　 

Fang Liwen, Director of the Respiratory Disease Prevention and Control Department of the NCNCD, and Cong Shu, Research Associate of the Respiratory Disease Prevention and Control Department of the NCNCD, presided over the training session and, together with Dr. Fan Jing, introduced health management of COPD at the community level, tobacco exposure of Chinese residents and COPD patients, as well as influenza and pneumococcal vaccinations in the country.

 

Professor Wang Linhong, chief expert on chronic diseases, and Kan Haidong, Vice President of the School of Public Health of Fudan University, shared their knowledge about the prevention and control of chronic respiratory diseases during the COVID-19 pandemic and the impact of the environment on COPD. 

 

Professor Chen Yahong from the Peking University Third Hospital, Professor Yang Ting from the China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Professor Zhang Yi from Xuanwu Hospital of Capital Medical University and Professor Gao Yi from the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University gave lectures on new ideas on COPD from the international community, progress made in screening and prevention through intervention projects for groups with a high-risk of COPD, COPD and lung cancer, as well as on pulmonary function examinations and basic knowledge. Several experts from provincial CDC shared their experience on the COPD health management in their province.