Asthma Education Conference for Tribal Health Officers Serving the Aberdeen Area

为阿伯丁地区服务的部落卫生官员举办哮喘教育会议

• 批准号: 7162477
• 负责人: David Osterberg
• 金额: $ 3.92万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF IOWA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-06-01 至 2007-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7162477
• 关键词: Native Americans; asthma; health education; meeting /conference /symposium; travel

DESCRIPTION (Provided by the Applicant): PROJECT SUMMARY - In the early 1960's, asthma in Native American populations was still relatively rare. Since then, it has become increasingly prevalent in Indian children under 15 years of age. Despite the fact that many live in rural locations, morbidity and mortality rates of asthma among American Indians are nearly the same as rates seen among all races in the United States. While the reasons for this increase are not yet clear due to a lack of epidemiologic data on asthma in Native communities, among the potential environmental health risks are increases in exposure to mainstream and side-stream tobacco smoke, the use of wood-burning stoves, a high incidence of attacks of respiratory viruses in infants, and co-morbidity of asthma with obesity. In the social environment, many American Indians are living in conditions of extreme poverty, with high unemployment and lower educational attainment, adding further weight to the physical and financial burdens of childhood asthma on these communities. This project will conduct a regional conference on asthma designed to inform representatives of Northern Plains tribal health agencies about the current state of knowledge, research, and treatment of asthma, its potential environmental health triggers, prevention strategies, and environmental improvement measures. The goal of this project is to advance the state of knowledge of asthma among tribal health representatives and directors, Indian Health Service staff, emergency medical workers, nurses, and pediatricians working with 18 tribes in the region served by the Northern Plains Tribal Epidemiology Center (IA, NE, ND, SD) so that they may transform this knowledge into better medical services and heightened understanding of this condition in their communities. The workshop will be held in September 2006 at the Alex Johnson Hotel in Rapid City, SD. It will address exposures to everyday types of indoor and outdoor contaminants, including, but not limited to environmental tobacco smoke, allergens and endotoxins, molds and insects, biological contaminants such as dust mites, chemical contaminants such as pesticides and formaldehyde, exhaust from wood-burning stoves, and motor vehicle exhaust. The EHSRC and its investigators at The University of Iowa are uniquely qualified to carry out this dissemination conference, as it is the only NIEHS-funded center to focus on rural environmental exposures with specialization in asthma research.

描述（由申请人提供）：项目摘要 - 在1960年代初期，美国原住民人口的哮喘仍然相对罕见。从那以后，在15岁以下的印度儿童中，它变得越来越普遍。尽管许多人生活在农村地区，但美洲印第安人哮喘的发病率和死亡率几乎与美国所有种族中看到的比率相同。虽然由于缺乏关于本地社区哮喘的流行病学数据而增加的原因尚不清楚，但潜在的环境健康风险中，可能会增加暴露于主流和侧面烟草烟雾中，使用燃木植物，使用燃木炉，是婴儿呼吸病毒的高发病率，婴儿呼吸道病毒的发作率，以及依从性效果。在社会环境中，许多美洲印第安人生活在极端贫困，高失业率和较低的教育程度的条件下，增加了这些社区童年哮喘的身体和经济负担。该项目将举行关于哮喘的区域会议，旨在将部落健康机构的代表告知哮喘的当前知识，研究和治疗状况，其潜在的环境健康触发者，预防策略和环境改善措施。该项目的目的是促进部落健康代表和董事，印度卫生服务人员，紧急医疗工作者，护士和儿科医生在该地区工作的18个部落（IA，NE，NE，ND，SD）服务的18个部落的知识状态，以使他们可以将这种知识转化为更好的医疗服务，以使他们的医疗服务和高度的理解能够将其转变为他们的社区。该研讨会将于2006年9月在SD拉皮德城的Alex Johnson Hotel举行。它将解决对日常室内和室外污染物的暴露，包括但不限于环境烟草烟雾，过敏原和内毒素，霉菌和昆虫，生物污染物，例如粉尘螨，化学污染物，例如农药和造型污染物，例如农药和造型的燃木炉和燃木炉stoves和机动车辆的排气。 EHSRC及其爱荷华大学的调查人员具有独特的资格进行这次传播会议，因为它是唯一一个专注于哮喘研究专业化的NIEHS资助的中心。