Session: Strategies for Addressing the Urban Asthma Crisis (Urban Health Contributed Papers)
3296.0: Monday, November 17, 2003: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
Oral
Strategies for Addressing the Urban Asthma Crisis (Urban Health Contributed Papers)
This session will provide the audience with an overview of three innovative interventions addressing the urban ashma crises in San Francisco, Seattle, and New York. Creating prevention and management interventions for the growing asthma epidemic requires a multi-disciplinary approach integrating medical care with enviornmental change.
Learning Objectives: Refer to the individual abstracts for learning objectives
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organizer(s):Zoe Cardoza Clayson, ScD
Presider(s):Zoe Cardoza Clayson, ScD
2:30 PMWelcoming Remarks
2:32 PMEvaluation of pilot YES WE CAN site at San Francisco General Hospital
Shannon Thyne, MD
2:52 PMAsthma Outreach Project, Odessa Brown, Seattle, WA
James Stout, MD, MPH
3:12 PMAdapting the NHLBI asthma guidelines for use in busy primary care settings
Shawn K. Bowen, MD, Roy Grant, Karen M. Drezner, MEd, Alan Shapiro, MD
3:32 PMKaiser Permanente pioneering methods in asthma for risk stratification and results
Guillermo Mendoza, MD
3:52 PMDiscussion
Organized by:Medical Care
Endorsed by:Maternal and Child Health; Socialist Caucus
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy

The 131st Annual Meeting (November 15-19, 2003) of APHA