A review of global data shows that asthma creates a significant burden on health. In 2019, it was linked to millions of years of lost healthy life and hundreds of thousands of deaths globally. Most of this burden falls on people living in low-income countries where essential medicines are often hard to find or too expensive.
To address these gaps, experts suggest moving away from only using specialists. Instead, they recommend system-level changes like training primary care doctors, using community health workers for home visits, and creating national allergy strategies. These methods aim to make asthma management more accessible to everyone regardless of where they live.
Because this is a review of existing systems rather than a clinical trial, it does not provide specific medical treatments. It highlights that improving access to medicine and training local healthcare workers are key steps toward making care fairer for people with allergic diseases.
