Greetings MED-Hive community!

HAPPY NEW MONTH TO EVERYONE!

Hello everyone! We welcome you once again, to the Med-hive community Monthly Theme Reveal Post for Health Promotion, Awareness and Discussions. As this community's main objective, members have the opportunity to join and share knowledge, and practical tips and answer questions about the theme of the month.

We all want to learn and grow with this community this month, as we write about a chosen area of focus. Please, feel free to do as many posts as you want about the topic throughout the month even outside the weekly prompts. We aim to open health discussions regarding our topic and the more the merrier!

Medicine has myriads of things to write about, considering the different points of view from the various health professionals or even non-professionals, everyone has a health experience. Thus, you have the opportunity to glean from them and expand your horizons about our topic for the month, here on the wonderful Hive Blockchain.

Let's get the knowledge flowing, shall we?

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Our respiratory system is an essential one. We cannot live without breathing. The little movements allow air in and out of our lungs. A simple, yet important one that is so essential to life itself. Unfortunately, as simple humans as we are we often take things for granted and breathing is just one more of those things. Easy to forget but not so easy if it starts to fail.

According to WHO (World Health Organization),

Chronic respiratory diseases (CRDs) affect the airways and other structures of the lungs. Some of the most common are chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), asthma, occupational lung diseases and pulmonary hypertension. In addition to tobacco smoke, other risk factors include air pollution, occupational chemicals and dusts, and frequent lower respiratory infections during childhood.

The numbers related to chronic respiratory diseases are scary but nonetheless, they are true:

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the third leading cause of death worldwide, causing 3.23 million deaths in 2019.

Many of CDRs are related to our lifestyles but there are others that can be related to the place where we live, more specifically related to air pollution. In this regard, the statistics are also overwhelming:

In 2019, 99% of the world’s population was living in places where the WHO air quality guidelines levels were not met.
The combined effects of ambient air pollution and household air pollution are associated with 6.7 million premature deaths annually.

With this being said, the MED-HIVE community thought it is an important subject to discuss and more importantly, a topic to raise awareness about.

Therefore, it's now officially the beginning of the month theme!

In the following days, we will launch weekly challenges with prizes to be won, so make sure to pay attention to the @med-hive account in the next couple of days! Just to give you all a sneak peek of what might happen this month here's a summary:

Throughout May we will be having 4 weekly prompts.

More information about the weekly prompts will come out on their respective Mondays. These next posts will have a statement explaining the rules and the topic for the week and the prizes at stake!

Stay tuned and don't miss a thing!

We have given a little tick in our reward pool for the month and now our beloved members have the opportunity and honour to be elected MED-HIVER of the month! Not only you'll get the title but also some amazing HIVE rewards:

- 10 HIVE will be awarded to the MED-HIVER of the month. Courtesy of the @med-hive team

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👉 To be elected MED-HIVER OF THE MONTH, all you have to do is simply: 👈

• Follow the rules of the community
• Subscribe to MED-Hive community
• Join our Discord Channel and register if you are a health professional
• Engage within the community through comments and supporting others

- Participate in ALL weekly prompts for the month

👉 All these steps must be followed to be eligible for the rewards 👈

We will take into account engagement levels, writing quality, level of evidence, readability of the content, relevance for the month's topic, creativity and if you followed all the rules. A post announcing the winner will be made in the first week of the next month and prizes will be distributed. There will also be honourable mentions with a summary of good-quality posts that we believe deserve your support and sharing.

Important Notes & Rules

Posts are welcome from everyone in and out of the community, everyone is welcome to join this prompt. What experiences do you have? What research can you share? Feel free to express yourself about this. Write your post around the focus area in a way that will:

1. Enlighten the community.

2. Equip readers to make healthy decisions.

3. Correct harmful health practices.

4. Encourage healthy practices.

5. Create and promote necessary health awareness.

The post should contain:

• An English translation if written in a native language.
• If any external material or resource is used in the post, it should be well cited and ensure proper images tailored to your post are used and rightly sourced.
• If references are used, place the link of each one at the end of your post, in a way it's easily accessible.
• The use of the following tag: #medhive

Remember to engage with others' posts and let's make the community lively. Kindly share your post on Twitter with the #medhive and #posh tags. Make sure your account is registered, giving you the possibility to earn posh tokens and also spread the word of Hive to the community on Twitter.

Let's not forget the most important rule of all:

Plagiarism is not tolerated, you are solely responsible to confirm your information and source your references properly.

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