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 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 16 Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease Health Education Research [Keywords:] health education; COPD; nursing intervention; nursing progress With the global population, the arrival of an aging society, the elderly, such as prone to hypertension, diabetes, cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and some other chronic non-communicable diseases are more and more against the elderly health. which is the respiratory system in COPD death and disability in the first leading cause of morbidity in the elderly body was second only to cardiovascular disease in elderly chronic [1]. As long course of the disease, cause of complex disease complex, which carry out health education to patients with a correct understanding of their disease, improve health education, understanding and knowledge, thereby reducing the Benbingfasheng, relapse rate, but are particularly important. In this paper the author refer to the extensive literature on the basis of Research on health education COPD were reviewed. 1 COPD and the prevalence of harmful Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, COPD) is a kind of airflow limitation characteristic of the lung disease is not fully reversible airflow limitation, showed progressive development of emphysema and chronic bronchitis and is closely related to [2 ]. The latest epidemiological survey showed that people over the age of 40, COPD prevalence as high as 8% to 10%, from 500 to 1,100 people each year become disabled due to COPD, more than 1 million cases of illness [3] .2000 the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that worldwide about 300 million people died of COPD. 2020, the disease will become the world’s No. 3 cause of death [4]. It can be seen, COPD patients with a serious impact on the ability to work and quality of life, WHO assessment of COPD among the first sequence of disease burden [5]. In addition Xiao-Ping Yu et al [6] on the adoption of the Shang