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Parents | Teachers | Health Professionals | Media
The knowledge that parents and school staff have of asthma can vary greatly among communities. Hosting an Asthma Awareness Event at a local school is a great way to provide information to parents and school staff and to address many issues around asthma management. It can also create an excellent forum for alleviating the concern that parents or teachers may have around appropriate asthma management in the school setting.
The Asthma Society of Canada encourages healthcare professionals (such as Certified Asthma Educators and school nurses) to work together to conduct Asthma Awareness Events, as the partnerships that develop could evolve into a network of care and support for families of children with asthma.
Contact the Asthma Society of Canada for free resource material if you are planning an Asthma Awareness Event. We can provide: free Asthma Basics Booklets, sample Asthma Action Plans, asthma educational posters, referrals to qualified guest speakers, presentation overheads and speaker’s notes.
For more information, contact us at
info@asthma.ca. To download copies of our Asthma Basics Booklet series in English or French, visit our
Publication section.
Other Resources & Links
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School Nurse Toolkit. The AAP and the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology developed numerous handouts to help parents and nurses better care for children with asthma and allergies. Refer to this Web page for downloadable handouts, forms, and PowerPoint presentations.
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Asthma Basics for School Nurses. This online presentation provides an overview of what school nurses need to know about asthma including prevalence, disease basics, respiratory assessment, NIH / NHLBI asthma guidelines, medications, peak flow, Asthma Action Plans, communication with primary care providers and parents, care coordination/case management, asthma resources and new inhaler legislation.
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- Asthma Education : Interactive Guidelines (US). This site provides the 1997 National Asthma Education Guidelines in HTML format to facilitate obtaining individualised recommendations quickly. This site also includes two decision support systems to assist healthcare professionals in staging their patients' acute and chronic disease severity and in obtaining appropriate diagnostic and treatment recommendations for their patients. Asthma patient educational materials are also included, and are presented in a format that is easy to print and provide to patients.
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- Allies Against Asthma. The Allies Against Asthma Resource Bank is a centralized database for sharing information about resources, tools and materials that may be useful to coalitions and community programs addressing asthma, including: materials to educate individuals about asthma, resources to help implement asthma intervention programs, evaluation/survey instruments to measure asthma-related activities or outcomes and materials to assist community coalition efforts. Also available are tools to evaluate asthma educational materials.
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- Asthma Speaker's Kit for Health Care Professionals. You can download an Adobe Acrobat version of EPA's slide show presentation about asthma and the top indoor asthma triggers or you can order the kit from IAQINFO. This 25-slide presentation, complete with speakers notes, is designed for giving talks to a general public audience, and provides basic information about how to reduce exposures to the top indoor asthma triggers.
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For more general asthma resources and links, visit our
Related Links section.
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