Fifth Annual Pediatric Asthma Conference - Impacting the Community

描述（由申请人提供）：哮喘每年影响700万儿童，不成比例地影响非裔美国儿童和生活在城市地区的儿童。从2001年到2009年，黑人儿童的哮喘发病率增加最多，几乎增加了50%。作为缺课的主要原因之一，学生每年缺课约1300万天。哮喘是一种突出的儿童慢性疾病，也是儿童残疾的原因之一。这种疾病阻碍了受影响的儿童及其家庭的学习、玩耍甚至睡眠。如果从业者和家庭能够被说服更一致地遵循已知的理想护理方法，如NHLBI哮喘指南所体现的那样，相关的高医疗保健费用和低生活质量可以得到显著改善。作为多方面哮喘质量改善计划的一部分，从2009年开始，全国儿童医院开始举办年度儿科哮喘会议，旨在为哮喘患者的社区和医院护理提供者提供有关哮喘护理的新信息和实用建议。各种各样的卫生保健提供者，包括医生、护士、呼吸治疗师、药剂师、社会工作者和诊所工作人员都参加了会议。在接下来的五年里，会议将寻求扩展以下目标：1)为学校护士提供一个专门的课程；2)为认证哮喘教育者提供一个培训课程；3)为哮喘患者及其家属实施为期一天的教育营；4)将会议从俄亥俄州中部扩展到全州，到地区，再到全国。该会议吸引了中西部最大的听众，并寻求发展，包括许多不同的专业人士和非专业人士，他们参与照顾哮喘儿童。通过为1-5年级的学校护士和4 -5年级的家庭提供奖学金，会议寻求从可能尚未接受哮喘教育的弱势群体中招募参与者，并扩大哮喘护理。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Asthma affects 7 million children each year and disproportionately affects African-American children and children living in urban areas. From 2001 through 2009 asthma rates increased the most among black children, almost a 50% increase. As one of the leading causes of school absence, students miss about 13 million school days each year. Asthma is a prominent chronic childhood disease and a cause of childhood disability. The disease encumbers affected children and their families, with limits to learn, play and even sleep. The related high healthcare costs and poor quality of life could be significantly improved if practitioners and families can be convinced to more consistently follow known ideal methods of care - as embodied in the NHLBI Asthma Guidelines. As part of a multi-faceted asthma quality improvement program, beginning in 2009 Nationwide Children's Hospital began hosting an Annual Pediatric Asthma Conference aimed at providing new information and practical advice regarding asthma care for community and hospital care providers of asthma patients. A robust variety of health care providers, including physicians, nurses, respiratory therapists, pharmacists, social workers, and clinic staff have participated. Over the next five years the conference seeks to expand with the following aims: 1) provide a specialized program for school nurses school nurses, 2) have a training program for Certified Asthma Educators 3) implement a day long education camp for asthma patients and their families 4) expand the conference from central Ohio to statewide to regional to national. The conference has drawn the largest audience in the Midwest and seeks to grow and include the many different professionals and lay persons who are involved in the care of children with asthma. By providing scholarship for school nurses in years 1-5 and for families in years 4 and 5, the conference seeks to recruit participants from disadvantaged groups who may not already be receiving asthma education and enlarge asthma care. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANC: Asthma affects 7 million children each year and disproportionately affects African-American children and children living in urban areas. As a leading cause of school absence, related high healthcare costs and poor quality of life, asthma care could be significantly improved if practitioners and families know and follow to own ideal methods of care - as embodied in the NHLBI Asthma Guidelines. The conference has provided education for health professional in the past and seeks to expand the audience to include other who are equally important in the health care of the child with asthma- school nurses, asthma educators and families. The proposed future years of the conference will also target first a regional and then a national audience.