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Phissons plc : An Ethics Dilemma
“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and 5 minutes to ruin it.”
Warren Buffet
More people in the USA and UK have severe asthma than anywhere else in the world.
In the case of the USA asthma varies drastically between ethnic populations.
• An estimated 24 million people, including more than 6 million children, have asthma.
• Asthma prevalence is higher among persons with family income below the poverty
level.
• More than 11 million people reported having an asthma attack, in a recent government
survey.
• Asthma accounts for 14.2 million physician office visits,8 439,000 discharges from
hospital inpatient care,
and 1.8 million emergency department visits each year. (1)
Asthma prevalence also differs between populations of the same ethnicity who are born
and live in different places.
World Health Organisation Asthma Facts
• According to WHO estimates, 235 million people suffer from asthma.
• Asthma is the most common chronic disease among children.
