World Osteoporosis Day was first initiated by the British National Osteoporosis Society in 1996, and supported by the International Osteoporosis Foundation in 1997. At that time, June 24th was designated as the World Osteoporosis Day. Since 1998, every year, the activities of osteoporosis day around the world have released a theme to achieve global unified action and achieve better results.
1999 The theme of World Osteoporosis Day is early diagnosis. From 2000 to 2004, in order to make the theme of World Osteoporosis Day closely related to the families of osteoporosis patients, the theme of four-year Osteoporosis Day was to invest in your bones, but the subtitle of four years was different. For example, the subtitle in 2003 was to improve the quality of life, the subtitle in 2004 was male osteoporosis, and the theme in 2005 remained the same.
social context
Osteoporosis has become the main disease that plagues the elderly population, and its incidence rate has ranked the third among the elderly diseases after diabetes and Alzheimer's disease. The biggest harm of osteoporosis is that it is easy to cause fractures. In the elderly, the incidence of fractures related to osteoporosis is as high as 30% or more. In recent years, there are more and more young urban women suffering from osteoporosis. The main reasons are weight loss, fear of sun exposure and less exercise.
Osteoporosis has become an epidemic affecting the quality of life of middle-aged and elderly people, which has many hazards to human health, such as backache, short stature, hunchback and so on, affecting the quality of life. But its biggest harm is that it is easy to fracture, with an incidence rate of 27.5%-32.6%, and many patients are disabled. 50% patients need all-weather life care and 20% need all-year care. In addition, 15% to 0% patients will die of various complications, and the quality of life of survivors will be greatly reduced due to disability, which will bring a heavy burden to families and society.