Common disease in childrens: asthma

Asthma is a disease that causes the bronchial tubes (these tubes let air in and out of your lungs, so you can breathe) to become swollen and inflamed. During an asthma attack, the bronchial tubes swell and this makes it difficult for the air to move in and out of the lungs. Asthma can develop at any age but most often begins in childhood. 

Asthma is the most common chronic disease in children. In the past few years the symptoms of asthma increased in children and adolescents that is why asthma has become more important this year. It increased more in low-middle income countries. It increased more in these countries because the medication for asthma usually has a high cost and the younger you are the more it costs. Because of the high costs of the medication, people in these countries have more difficulty fighting asthma. Most of the children that have asthma end up seriously ill in the hospital. Because of this, asthma has become a more serious topic and the health system implemented measures to control the situation. One of the things that they have done is the availability and affordability of essential medications for asthma so people can afford these medications and fewer children end up in the hospital 

A common disease in adults: hypertension 

Hypertension is also called high blood pressure. If you have high blood pressure, the force of the blood pushing against the artery walls is consistently too high, which means that the heart has to work harder to pump blood. This disease sounds like you don’t have to worry too much about it but hypertension can lead to severe health complications like heart disease. High blood pressure is most common in adults because of stress, unhealthy bad choices, alcohol, too much salt in the diet…

The increasing number of people with hypertension and its consequences have become an important topic recently. In the past decade hypertension was a problem in high-income countries but now is a problem in low-middle-income countries.

 In low-middle-income countries, the number of patients with hypertension has increased, and only 1 out of 3 people that have hypertension knows it. This rising burden leads to an increase in cost in health systems which makes economic access to medications more difficult. The high costs of medication make people that live in a low middle-income country struggle with affording the medications and make more people end up in the hospital very ill. This is why hypertension affects more low-middle-income countries.