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The Global Asthma Network (GAN) is a follow on from the now completed International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC). GAN is a collaboration between former members of ISAAC and members of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease(The Union). GAN is a worldwide network of study centres continuing the global surveillance of asthma in children established by ISAAC, and now including the surveillance of asthma in adults. The network aims to improve asthma care globally, with a focus on low- and middle-income countries, through enhanced surveillance, research collaboration, capacity building and access to quality-assured essential medicines. GAN is responsible for the Global Asthma Report, which is released every three years, the most recently in 2014.〔Global Asthma Network Steering Group, editor. The Global Asthma Report 2014. Auckland, New Zealand: The Global Asthma Network; 2014.〕 ==History== In 2012, concern from members of ISAAC and The Union that the Global Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) agenda〔World Health Organization. Comprehensive global monitoring framework and targets for the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization, 2013.〕 overlooked asthma resulted in the establishment of GAN. GAN is a collaboration between former members of ISAAC, the largest collaborative epidemiological study of children in the world,〔Anonymous. Guinness World Records. London: Guinness World Records, Ltd; 2004.〕 and members of The Union. The Union and ISAAC collaborated to release the Global Asthma Report at the time of the United Nations High-Level Meeting on Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) in New York on 19–20 September 2011.〔The International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung disease, The International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC), editors. The Global Asthma Report 2011. Paris, France: The International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease; 2011.〕 This report provided an overview of what was known about the causes and triggers of asthma, the global incidence, the progress made and the significant challenges currently and for the future. It demonstrated that the suffering and waste of resources caused by not managing asthma effectively are much greater than the cost of effective action. The ISAAC programme formally finished in December 2012. The Global Asthma Network operates on the same principle of collaborative and systematic application of standardised methodologies as the ISAAC programme. The GAN data centre operates from Auckland, New Zealand, communicating methodologies, analysing data, and maintaining the GAN website. The Global Asthma Network has merged the global asthma surveillance work pioneered by ISAAC with the activities that The Union has pursued over the years, including: a) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Global Asthma Network」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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