Fifth Annual Pediatric Asthma Conference - Impacting the Community

哮喘每年影响700万儿童，不成比例地影响非洲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长最快，几乎增长了50%。作为缺课的主要原因之一，学生每年缺课约1300万天。哮喘是一种突出的慢性儿童疾病，也是儿童残疾的原因之一。这种疾病影响了儿童及其家庭，限制了他们的学习、玩耍甚至睡眠。相关的高医疗费用和生活质量差可以显着改善，如果医生和家庭可以被说服更一致地遵循已知的理想的护理方法-体现在NHLBI哮喘指南。作为一个多方面的哮喘质量改进计划的一部分，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有关哮喘护理的新信息和实用建议。各种各样的医疗保健提供者，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。在接下来的五年里，会议寻求扩大以下目标：1）为学校护士提供一个专门的计划，2）为认证的哮喘教育者提供培训计划3）为哮喘患者及其家人实施一天的教育营4）将会议从俄亥俄州中部扩展到全州，区域到全国。会议吸引了中西部最多的观众，并寻求发展和包括许多不同的专业人士和外行人谁是参与照顾哮喘儿童。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，会议旨在招募可能尚未接受哮喘教育的弱势群体的参与者，并扩大哮喘护理。 公共卫生相关性：哮喘每年影响700万儿童，尤其是非洲裔美国儿童和城市儿童。作为缺课的主要原因，相关的高医疗费用和生活质量差，哮喘护理可以显着改善，如果医生和家庭知道并遵循自己的理想护理方法-如NHLBI哮喘指南所体现的。该会议在过去为卫生专业人员提供了教育，并寻求扩大受众，包括在哮喘儿童的卫生保健中同样重要的其他人-学校护士，哮喘教育工作者和家庭。拟议的未来几年会议也将首先针对区域受众，然后是国家受众。

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.