Session: Right to A Healthy Home

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5157.0: Wednesday, November 08, 2006: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM

Oral

Right to A Healthy Home

This session examines the overall conference theme from the most basic of perspectives: healthy homes are a right, not a privelege. This session will examine asthma trigger reduction data acquired during a home pilot study, and ways of mitigating these triggers and their impacts on families. The effect of time spent indoors will also be explored, and the negative impacts of buildings will be discussed in this context. In addition, the efforts to undertake in-home environmental interventions as a part of an asthma management program will be presented. Finally, a training project will highlight how local public health agencies can impact the built environment with limited resources.

Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of this session, the participant (learner) in this session will be able to: Learn to recognize why built environment competency is relevant to local public health agencies; Gain knowledge regarding program design attributes for in-home environmental intervention programs for asthma and suggested solutions to design limitations that were faced by the case studies; Recognize the connection between building design and health; and Describe the linkages between home environmental triggers and asthma.

Moderator(s):

Laura Kolb, MPH

2:30 PM

Helping parents reduce asthma triggers in the home: A pilot intervention study in Vermont