4358.0 Advancing Asthma Policy Change

Tuesday, November 10, 2009: 4:30 PM
Oral
The overall objective for the session is to empower participants to become advocates for asthma policy change, using a new evidence-based, consensus-driven National Asthma Public Policy Agenda 1. The evidence for asthma policy as effective intervention – what we know about what works 2. Case study from the field 3. The state perspective – a synopsis of findings from state asthma programs 4. Creating an evaluation framework for asthma policy
Session Objectives: Describe the evidence to see policy as an effective asthma intervention. List significant characteristics of state asthma programs. Describe an evaluation framework for asthma policy.
Moderator:
Peggy Gallup, PhD, MPH

4:30 PM
We Can Do Better: Improving Asthma Outcomes in America
Julia Gray, MPH, Jacalyn Carden, MS, CAE, Jennifer Stanley, MA, John W. Moran, PhD, CQM and Ron Bialek, MPP
  
4:45 PM
A comparison of current childhood asthma prevalence and services with national goals and guidelines: National and Medicaid statistics: 2001 - 2004
M. Beth Benedict, DrPH, JD, RN
5:00 PM
Child Asthma Link Line: Outcomes from a Medicaid Managed Care Organization Matched Sample Study
Kathleen Coughey, PhD, Gary Klein, PhD, Caroline West, MPA, James J. Diamond, PhD, Abbie Santana, MSPH, Erin McCarville, MPH and Michael Rosenthal, MD
  
5:15 PM
Evaluating asthma-related policies at the state and local level
Elizabeth Herman, MD, MPH and Marcia Griffith, MPH
5:30 PM
Development of a national asthma public policy agenda
Katherine Pruitt and Janice E. Nolen
     

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Organized by: Community Health Planning and Policy Development

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)

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