Arthritis Awareness around the globe with the Arthritis Foundation
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The arthritis foundation is represented in many different parts of the world. The national arthritis foundation began in 1984, it is a charitable body and is the largest public organization in Singapore. It spends all its energies to educate patients, help arthritis sufferers as well as educating the public on arthritis. Another one of its functions is to support research for this disease. The arthritis foundation is a self management body as well as a coordinating body that works with pharmaceutical companies and also works with specialist in the field of arthritis.
Advocating against arthritis and caring for patients is part of its mission
The vision of the national arthritis foundation is:
Care for patients
Advocate against arthritis
Conduct research against arthritis
Educate patients as well as the public
It has approximately one thousand members that represent all walks of life that include those having arthritis, caregivers as well as those members that are concerned with arthritis, as also health professionals. To oversee the work of the foundation, there is an elected general council as well as an executive committee.
In America, the arthritis Foundation is a non-profit nationwide health organization that takes greater control of arthritis through taking efforts to prevent, control as well as cure arthritis, which is the nation’s leading cause of disability. In America, it has 500,000 volunteers as well as 150 service points that offer many programs and services to help people fight and take control of their arthritis. In addition, it provides education and information through its in-depth booklets and books detailing how to cope and live with arthritis.
From 1948 up to the present, the arthritis Foundation has pumped in more than three hundred million dollars on research and supports over two thousand scientists, physicians as well as health professionals that lead the way in cutting edge arthritis research. With an estimated seventy million Americans suffering from arthritis, the Foundation also ensures that public policy as well as advocacy efforts are introduced and passed to support its vision. There are many various sections of the arthritis Foundation and one area is the arthritis Foundation osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis. These two sections educate their patients about the problems associated with these two diseases.
The leading cause of disability in America is arthritis. The mission of the arthritis foundation is to prevent as well as cure arthritis and its related diseases. The arthritis foundation has its own magazine called arthritis today, which is published six times a year. Through its magazine it tries to send its message across loud and clear - arthritis is to be defeated and checked without sparing any effort.
Further Readings:
arthritis Therapy Devices
arthritis Association with Pain
