The Breathmobile provides asthma diagnosis, education, treatment and research for children with asthma. The breathmobile reaches out to low income and uninsured population who often receive care only in emergency rooms.
This workshop was designed to help health care professionals enhance the quality of care they deliver by educating them about specific environmental asthma triggers and how they affect asthma outcomes as well as the appropriate remediation strategies. The program also provides HCPs with information about the local resources that their patients may find useful such as asthma education classes, tenants rights and human services resources, pest control, community-level advocacy (ie. reducing neighborhood diesel idling), air quality monitor tools, etc.
By improving HCPs knowledge of the environmental issues and the wide variety of strategies for reducing exposure they can provide more comprehensive care, are more likely to communicate these issues to their patients, and are better equipped to provide meaningful information to their patients that will increase the patient and families capacity for successful self management.
Please contact the Clean Air Council if you would like your office or clinic to receive this training workshop or would like any relevant information, hand-outs, triggers checklist, etc.
You Can Control Asthma is a validated asthma education program designed to give children ages 6 to 12 and their families more self-confidence and the necessary knowledge and skills needed to control asthma. It consists of a set of parallel booklets for children and their parents, which teach principles of asthma management through pictures, captions, and activities. Also included is an Implementation Guide designed to provide successful strategies for educating families in clinical, community, school and home settings using the You Can Control Asthma booklets. These low-literacy, culturally appropriate booklets, available in English and Spanish, can be used alone or with the Implementation Guide in a formal educational program. The illustrations, messages, vocabulary and layout of the booklets have been extensively tested with children and adults who have reading limitations.
