Asthma-Chronic Respiratory Disease Article | Healthcare

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Asthma
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One purpose for choosing the three articles is that they all have elaborated the issue of
asthma in UAE. Each article shows a different topic supporting the aspect of asthma in countries
found in UAE. Therefore, the paper encapsulates a summary of the three articles as shown
below;
Sweileh, W. M., Al-Jabi, S. W., Sa’ed, H. Z., & Sawalha, A. F. (2014). Bronchial asthma and
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: research activity in Arab
countries. Multidisciplinary respiratory medicine, 9(1), 38.
Introduction
The article elaborates on how chronic respiratory disease is a dangerous disease like asthma. The
purpose of the report was to support how Arab countries have failed to explore conditions such
as asthma. Therefore, the article tried to use secondary sources that addresses the issue relating to
asthma in Arab countries. The methodology section shows how scientific articles containing
asthma-related concepts were analyzed. The selection of the items followed a unique criterion.
The findings revealed that there was low research on an aspect of asthma in Arab countries. The
article calls for more resources to be allocated to research fields to investigate more on COPD
and asthma.
Mahboub, B. H., Al-Hammadi, S., Rafique, M., Sulaiman, N., Pawankar, R., Al Redha, A. I., &
Mehta, A. C. (2012). Population prevalence of asthma and its determinants based on
European Community Respiratory Health Survey in the United Arab Emirates. BMC
pulmonary medicine, 12(1), 4.
The article starts by explaining how asthma is a dangerous disease that can manifest at any
age. The source, therefore, aimed to show that no single research has tried to explain how asthma