Nearly a year prior to the conference, a 13 member National Advisory Panel on Community-Based Strategies for Asthma Care was appointed to serve as content experts for the conference. The panel identified best practice programs for presentation at the conference using criteria developed by the panel of experts. The panel also identified leading asthma experts in patient care, public health, academia, education and community-based programs to be invited to the conference. The conference featured a series of presentations and facilitated group discussion. Communities served by the various programs included, but were not limited to, a managed care organization's patient population, patients of several emergency departments in a major city, a high-risk community defined by geography, and employees of a city government division.
Program demonstrates strong potential for support from asthma community.
Program demonstrates turnkey potential - transportable with minor revisions. While a number of patient care management programs were identified as potential candidates for presentation under the Patient Care Management module, the following three were selected based on their innovativeness, outcome data and effectiveness in improving the lives of the populations served. Though there are many community intervention programs nationwide that are achieving admirable results, the following program was selected because at the time of its selection, it represented one of the most effective initiatives underway for coalescing resources to effectively reach and serve high-risk, culturally diverse populations. PhD, presenters Finally, the Indoor Air Quality module showcased two programs that are effectively impacting persons with asthma through the improvement of indoor air quality in schools and in the home. The audience of over 90 participants was specifically selected and invited to attend the conference by the Advisory Panel.