4267.0: Tuesday, October 23, 2001: 4:30 PM-6:00 PM | ||||
Oral Session | ||||
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| Rates of asthma have risen dramatically over the past two decades, preventing increasing percentages of people from leading healthy and active lives. Survey and other data tell us that some people suffer disproportionately from asthma, depending on where they work, their race, age, or income, among other factors. But in general, available data on asthma are insufficient for developing and implementing effective programs to reverse the asthma epidemic. We have only piecemeal information about many aspects of the disease, including how much asthma exists, how severe asthma is and whether it is well-managed, and what the costs and risk factors for asthma are. For a variety of reasons–including the increasing prevalence of the disease, high use of health care services by people whose asthma could be better controlled, and the potential for preventable environmental exposures to trigger and even cause the initial onset of the asthma–investment in surveillance of asthma is warranted. But what data should be collected in a surveillance system? How important is it that those data be comparable, organization to organization, locality to locality, and state to state? To what extent should surveillance systems be designed to gather not only health-related data, but also environmental and economic data? What are the opportunities and pitfalls of systems that depend on data from hospitals, schools, and/or public and private insurers and providers? Panelists in this session will address these questions as they describe their experiences developing, implementing and advocating for surveillance systems at the local, state, regional and national levels. | ||||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement. | ||||
| Learning Objectives: To understand the essential elements of and processes for establishing asthma surveillance systems; to learn about specific asthma surveillance initiatives; to understand policy issues relevant to asthma surveillance and environmental health tracking currently being debated at the national, state and local levels. | ||||
| Polly Hoppin, ScD | ||||
| Asthma in the United States Stephen C. Redd, MD | ||||
| Implementing a state public health asthma surveillance system: Lessons from Oregon Lynn M. Marshall, Karen E. Burrell, Michael A. Heumann, Karen L. Southwick, Justin E. Waltz, Melvin A. Kohn | ||||
| Surveillance of asthma prevalence among diverse elementary school students in an urban environment, and the role of indoor and outdoor air pollutants Rosemary M. Caron, PhD, MPH, Michele M. Mercier, MPH, Richard G. Rumba, BS, Patricia R. North, BS, Scott Bristol, BS, Barbara Gleason, BS, RN, Kimberly McNamara, BS, Elizabeth Maestranzi, BS, MaryAnn Cooney, MS, RN, C | ||||
| Pediatric asthma and air pollution: An application of school health record surveillance and geographic information systems (GIS) Robert S. Knorr, Suzanne K. Condon, Sherri A. Berger-Frank | ||||
| The need for national tracking: conclusions and recommendations of the Pew Environmental Health Commission's report Attack Asthma Susan Addiss, MPH, MURS | ||||
| Sponsor: | Environment | |||
| CE Credits: | CME, Environmental Health, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work | |||