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Speaker 1: One million New Zealanders are suffering from respiratory disease. That's

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Speaker 1: far worse than previously thought. This is according to a

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Speaker 1: new report from the Asthma and Respiratory Foundation, which found

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Speaker 1: one in five Kiwis are affected. Previously twenty twenty one,

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Speaker 1: that was one in seven. Bob Hancocks as the Asthma

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Speaker 1: and Richesty Foundation Medical Director, Professor. He's with us this morning.

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Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning.

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Speaker 2: How are you good?

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Speaker 1: Thank you Bob. How did we get something really wrong

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Speaker 1: here or how did why the big difference?

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Speaker 2: I think we've just got better data now and as

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Speaker 2: these reports have been done in updated several times each time,

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Speaker 2: we have better data and we we get a more

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Speaker 2: accurate idea of just how many people are suffering from

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Speaker 2: respiratory disease. So I think that's why.

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Speaker 1: The difference one in five. How do we compare to

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Speaker 1: other similar countries.

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Speaker 2: That's a good question. We haven't done a direct comparison.

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Speaker 2: I suspect we're not. We would be in the leading

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Speaker 2: the pact, but may not be much further ahead compared

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Speaker 2: to countries that like Australia and Britain and other places

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Speaker 2: that we might compare ourselves to because they have major

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Speaker 2: problems with respiratory disease as well. But at least with

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Speaker 2: this report, which was like an excellent report from Lucy

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Speaker 2: Tafa Barnard and James Zang, at least with this report,

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Speaker 2: we've got a better handle on how much of a

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Speaker 2: problem we have out there, and you know we're going

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Speaker 2: to do anything about it. That's really really important.

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Speaker 1: What diseases are we talking about, sma and things like.

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Speaker 2: That, Well, the report mostly covers asthma, COPD, and other

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Speaker 2: disease of the airways called bronchi extocyst, which people may

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Speaker 2: or may not have heard of, but the big two

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Speaker 2: are asthma and COPD. It also looked at pneumonia in

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Speaker 2: children and as well, because that's also of concern. But

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Speaker 2: there is some good news in here. The good news

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Speaker 2: is that with the work of a number of health

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Speaker 2: professionals around New Zealand and the Foundation, we have managed

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Speaker 2: to improve some of those statistics. So we haven't reduced

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Speaker 2: a number of people with asthma, but we've certainly made

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Speaker 2: a big dent in the number of people who have

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Speaker 2: severe enough asthma that they need to come to hospital.

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Speaker 2: So the Foundation set a target a few years ago,

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Speaker 2: trying to get a twenty five percent reduction in hospitalizations

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Speaker 2: by twenty twenty five. And we've already hit that tiger

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Speaker 2: for asthma, and we've already hit that tiger for COPD.

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Speaker 2: So there is good news in here as well as

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Speaker 2: a wake up called just how many people are suffering

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Speaker 2: from respiratory disease?

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Speaker 1: All right, interesting stuff, Bob, thank you very much for

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Speaker 1: your time. We really appreciate it. Bob Hancock's Asthma and

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Speaker 1: Respiratory Foundation medical director professor telling us there that yes,

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Speaker 1: things have gotten worse because we are perhaps accounting for

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Speaker 1: them better. One and five, not one and seven of

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Speaker 1: us suffer from a respiratory disease, but we are managing

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Speaker 1: to stay out of hospital. Well more of us managing

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Speaker 1: this stay out of hospital with those conditions.

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