COPD in Australia vs Egypt

Running head: COPD IN AUSTRALIA VS EGYPT
COPD in Australia vs Egypt
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Table of Contents
Part A: 2
Incidence and prevalence of COPD in Australia: 2
Incidence and prevalence of COPD in Egypt: 3
Part B: 4
References: 6

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Part A:
Incidence and prevalence of COPD in Australia:
COPD or chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder can be defined as one of the most alarming
public health disorders among the aging population, whoever this is a disease that targets almost
all of the different age groups. COPD is an umbrella terms that encompasses emphysema and
chronic bronchitis that restricts the passage of air across the bronchial tubes. This leads to
shortness of breath or dyspnoea and can cause life threatening exacerbations in the patient.
Hence the mortality of this disease in extremely high in many developing nations, and it
continues to be a huge health and wellbeing risk for the society till date.
Considering the picture for Australia, the figures and statistics of the diseases indicates that
in the past couple of years the number of deaths due to COPD had been as high as 7100 in
Australia. According to the report of Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2018), COPD
and its related exacerbations and complications have been considered as the 5th leading cause of
mortality in the nation. Although, the incidence rate of the disease in this nation for COPD
differs when compared to the prevalence rates. There is a significant difference between the
incidence rate and the prevalence rate of a particular co-morbidity in case of a particular nation.
Whereas, incidence rate indicates at the number of new acquisition of the disease in healthy
patients on an annual basis, prevalence indicates at the total number of incidence of the disease
in the nation. In case of Australia, the incidence rate of COPD for the patents over the age of 40
years is 13.7%; however in case of the patient population belonging to the age group of 75 years
and above, the incidence rate is almost 30%. Now comparing the broad picture, it can be
mentioned that for Australia, the total number of people reported with COPD is 750000, among