China ; Chronic Disease ; prevention & control ; Humans ; Respiration Disorders ; prevention & control

Bronchial asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), as chronic airway inflammatory diseases, seriously threaten the health of human beings. Chinese medicine has obvious advantages in prevention and treatment of them. "Preventive treatment theory" is a sort summarization of preventive medicine in Chinese medicine. The theory is not only reflected at the disease prevention levels, also embodied in the active treatment and the rehabilitation process. It was especially deep and colorfully embodied in the prevention and treatment of chronic airway inflammatory diseases such as asthma and COPD. In this paper,clarified were the prevention and treatment targets, ways of thinking and methods in different stages of asthma and COPD from various viewpoints including prevention before disease occurrence, treating disease at disease onset, preventing the aggravation once disease occurs, and consolidation after disease occurs. We hope to improve ways of thinking and prevention and treatment levels of bronchial asthma and COPD by Chinese medicine.
Asthma ; prevention & control ; Chronic Disease ; Humans ; Medicine, Chinese Traditional ; methods ; Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive ; prevention & control

Chronic Disease ; prevention & control ; therapy ; Disease Management ; Humans ; Self Care

China ; Chronic Disease ; prevention & control ; therapy ; Humans ; Public Health Practice

Childhood obesity has become a critical issue in public health area. We searched Wanfang Data and PubMed databases for published studies on health hazards of childhood obesity in China during 2000-2015. From the evidence of the Chinese population studies, we know childhood obesity brings not only cardiovascular, endocrine and respiratory system health hazards, but also other health hazards to liver, moving skeleton, psychological behavior and cognition intelligence, et al. Only to understand the health hazards of childhood obesity, and put the key preventable period of chronic diseases forward to childhood, can pandemic of chronic diseases be controlled from the sources.
China ; Chronic Disease ; prevention & control ; Humans ; Pediatric Obesity ; epidemiology ; physiopathology

Chronic Disease ; Humans ; Tooth Diseases ; etiology ; pathology ; prevention & control

China ; Chronic Disease ; prevention & control ; Humans ; Public Health Practice

Chronic Disease ; prevention & control ; Humans ; Population Surveillance ; methods

China ; Chronic Disease ; prevention & control ; Health Planning ; Humans

Global Health ; Humans ; Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive ; prevention & control ; therapy