Air Quality, Asthma and Advocacy: Workshop for Health Care Professionals
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.