NACI-NEEF Webinar: Environmental Management of Pediatric Asthma
Date and Time: Wednesday, November 9, 2011 12:00 pm, Eastern Standard Time (New York, GMT-05:00)
Overview
This webinar will give you practical tools for the environmental management of asthma, a key component of the National Asthma Education and Prevention Program's (NAEPP) Guidelines for Diagnosis and Management of Asthma and one of the six priority messages for asthma control from the NAEPP's Guidelines Implementation Plan (GIP) Report. The NAEPP is coordinated by the National Lung, Heart and Blood Institute (NHLBI).
How will this webinar help my work?
This webinar will give an overview of asthma triggers and how to take an environmental history for a child with asthma. In addition, it will provide intervention strategies that pediatric health care providers can offer to their patients. The webinar will also introduce the National Environmental Education Foundation's (NEEF) user-friendly tool, "Environmental Management of Pediatric Asthma: Guidelines for Health Care Providers," which is founded upon the NAEPP guidelines.
Who will present?
Joel Forman, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Community and Preventive Medicine and Vice Chair for Education and Residency Program Director at the Department of Pediatrics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He is also one of NEEF's 10 Pediatric Asthma Faculty Champions who train other health care professionals across the country.
What will I learn?
By participating in this webinar, you will learn how to:
1) Describe the six priority GIP messages
2) Describe environmental triggers of asthma
2) Describe key ways to effectively address environmental management of asthma within daily practice
This webinar is presented by the National Asthma Control Initiative (NACI), and its Strategic Partner, the National Environmental Education Foundation (NEEF).
About the NACI: The National Asthma Control Initiative is a multi-component, mobilizing initiative of the National Asthma Education and Prevention Program, coordinated by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), National Institutes of Health (NIH). The NACI is working to improve asthma control and to reduce health-related asthma disparities by strengthening collaborative efforts among patients and families, health care providers, and other stakeholders to put science-based asthma guidelines into action—at home, at work, and in the community.
About NEEF: The National Environmental Education Foundation (NEEF) provides knowledge to trusted professionals who, with their credibility, amplify messages to national audiences to solve everyday environmental problems. Together, we generate lasting positive change. NEEF partners with professionals in health, education, media, business and public land management to promote daily actions for helping people protect and enjoy the environment. Through our primary programs - Classroom Earth, National Public Lands Day, National Environmental Education Week, Business and Environment, Earth Gauge and Health & Environment - we offer Americans knowledge to live by.
