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133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition
December 10-14, 2005
Philadelphia, PA
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133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition December 10-14, 2005 Philadelphia, PA |
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3362.0: Monday, December 12, 2005: 4:30 PM-6:00 PM | |||
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| Asthma is a significant public health issue. This session features a range of initiatives to improve asthma education, management, and surveillance as well as research about asthma risk factors. We will hear about innovative education and intervention programs in Puerto Rico linking air quality, asthma patients and their families, schools, community health workers, government and non-profit organizations; an educational campaign in California to raise awareness about environmental triggers of asthma and to develop and implement public health and policy inventions; a novel public health asthma surveillance system in Boston using data from community health centers; and research about the association between weather and air pollution with asthma. | |||
| Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to: 1) identify and develop innovative approaches to asthma education and intervention; 2) describe the use of data, media and other communication tools to inform advocacy and interventions related to environmental triggers of asthma; 3) understand opportunities and limitations of using registries for asthma surveillance; and 4) understand the asthma risk associated with weather and air pollution. | |||
| Rebecca A. Head, PhD, DABT Molly Jacobs, MPH August Martin | |||
| Leyla Erk McCurdy, M Phil | |||
Addressing the Asthma Epidemic in Puerto Rico: Innovations through Partnerships ![[ Recorded presentation ]](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif){kind=small} Ameesha Mehta-Sampath, MPH, Lourdes E. Soto de Laurido, EdD, MPHE, CHES, Maureen O'Neill, MURP, Alberto Rivera Rentas, PhD | |||
| Environmental Public Health Sciences Data Resources for Informed Advocacy and Interventions to Prevent or Reduce Exposure to Environmental Triggers of Asthma throughout California: The CAFA Initiative Derek G. Shendell, DEnv, MPH, Eric M. Roberts, MD, PhD, Jeni L. Miller, PhD, Rebecca Flournoy, MPH, Cindy S. Tsai, Debra Ann Russell, BA, Diane R. Estrin, BS, Mary Beth Love, PhD | |||
| Pilot Asthma Registry: Meeting the Needs of Public Health Surveillance and Patient Management Services in Boston, MA Margaret Reid, RN, Polly Hoppin, ScD, Molly Jacobs, MPH, Mary Ostrem, DrPH | |||
| Air pollution and weather related to asthma prevalence and attack rate Wen-Chao Ho, W.R. Hartley, PhD, LaShaunda Malone, Leann Myers, PhD, Fung-Chang J. Sung, R. S. Lin | |||
| Evidence-based guidelines for environmental management of pediatric asthma for health care providers Rebecca Love, Leyla Erk McCurdy, M Phil | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Organized by: | Environment | ||
| Endorsed by: | Community Health Planning and Policy Development; Epidemiology | ||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing | ||
The 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition (December 10-14, 2005) of APHA