May require a bachelor's degree in area of specialty and 2-4 years of experience in the field or in a related area. Familiar with a variety of the field's concepts, practices, and procedures. Relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.
Asthma is a chronic respiratory disease which cannot be cured. Young children suffering from asthma can outgrow it but some children might outgrow the disease and may have it appearing again sometime during their adulthood.
Asthma: 1,000 deaths a year 'preventable'. Nine out of every 10 asthma deaths each year could be prevented, doctors said yesterday. Most people think of asthma as a mild disease but it causes a death every eight hours in Britain. In 2009, the disease killed 1,131 people â or one every eight hours, figures show.