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American Public Health Association
133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition
December 10-14, 2005
Philadelphia, PA
APHA 2005
 
Session: Communities Addressing Asthma: Working to Improve the Environment and Patient Care
4211.0: Tuesday, December 13, 2005: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
Oral
Communities Addressing Asthma: Working to Improve the Environment and Patient Care
In this session participants will be able to recognize environmental benefits to asthmatic children: create a patient education program to help manage asthma and increasethe adherence to the NIH asthmas guidelines for patient medications for treatment of persistent asthma.
Learning Objectives: Participants will be able to recognize environmental benefits to asthmatic children: create a patient education program to help manage asthma and increasethe adherence to the NIH asthmas guidelines for patient medications for treatment of persistent asthma.
Moderator(s):Mario Browne, BS
2:30 PMCommunity Action to Fight Asthma: Using Local, Regional, and State-level Coalitions to Advance Environmental Asthma Goals: Evaluating a Multi-pronged Initiative
Mary Kreger, DrPH, Claire Brindis, DrPH, Herebeto Escamilla, PhD, Marion Standish, JD, Diane Manuel, PhD, Lauren M. Sassoubre, BA
2:50 PMFrom Formation to Institutionalization: Tracing the development of community asthma coalitions
Frances D. Butterfoss, PhD, Marielena Lara, MD, MPH, John R. Meurer, MD, MBA, Michael P. Rosenthal, MD, Jane W. Peterson, RN, PhD, James W. Krieger, MD, MPH, Lisa Gilmore, MBA, MSW, Laurie LaChance, PhD, Amy R. Friedman, MPH
3:10 PMA disease management program established to curb the epidemic of asthma
Jacqueline Roberts Simmons, MD, MPH, CPE
3:30 PMConnecting Asthma Patients To Urban Resources and Education
Lori B. Feldman-Winter, MD, MPH, Lisa A. Asare, MPH
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Community Health Planning and Policy Development
Endorsed by:Environment; Public Health Education and Health Promotion; Socialist Caucus
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

The 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition (December 10-14, 2005) of APHA