Abstraction: when applied to dance, this word refers to choreography that does not have a narrative character. In other words, an abstract dance does not tell a story, nor is related to symbolic contents or any kind of associations with feelings, ideas or other elements than movement itself.
Facts about asthma. 1  WHO estimates that 235 million people currently suffer from asthma. 2  Asthma is a public health problem not just for high-income countries; it occurs in all countries regardless of the level of development. 3  Asthma is under-diagnosed and under-treated.
Figure 3: Prevalence of symptoms of asthma in the past 12 months among persons aged 18 to 45 years in 70 countries, World Health Survey 2002-2003. Figure 4: Burden of disease, measured by disability adjusted life years (DALYs) per 100,000 population attributed to asthma by age group and sex. Global population, 2010.