North Carolina Forum on Sustainable In-Home Asthma Management
North Carolina Forum on Sustainable In-Home Asthma Management
September 13, 2016
North Carolina
The North Carolina Forum on Sustainable In-Home Asthma Management was the ninth in a series of local meetings supported by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The Forum brought together a wide variety of participants from across North Carolina and neighboring states and was designed to meet the following desired outcomes:
- Understand the health benefits and cost-effectiveness of in-home education, environmental assessments and interventions, especially for children with poorly controlled asthma;
- Gain knowledge about successful evidence based in-home assessment models with varied capacity;
- Develop strategies to engage critical stakeholders;
- Leverage the evidence and business cases necessary to secure sustainable financing.
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
North Carolina Forum on Sustainable, In-home Asthma Management
- North Carolina Forum on Sustainable, In-home Asthma Management opening presentation Kathleen Jones-Vessey, M.S., N.C. Department of Health & Human Services Statistical Services Manager, State Center for Health Statistics-Division of Public Health
- Promoting Sustainability for Community Health Worker-led Asthma Home Visiting Stacey Chacker, Co-PI Project Director
- North Carolina Forum on Sustainable, In-home Asthma Management opening presentation Heidi LeSane, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 4
- BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee presentation Frances Martini, BSN, MBA, BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, Inc.
- Reducing Asthma among Rural and Underserved Populations in Eastern NC Greg Kearney, DrPH, MPH, REHS, Assistant Professor, East Carolina University, Department of Public Health, Brody School of Medicine; Theresa Blount, RN, BSN, AE-C, RN, BSN, AE-C, Asthma Coordinator, Pediatric Asthma Program, Vidant Medical Center
- HUD and Partner Activities to Improve Childhood Asthma Peter J. Ashley, DrPH, HUD Office of Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes
- Regional Asthma Disease Management Program: Population Based Health Care Melinda Shuler, BSBA, RCP, HHS, AE-C, Regional Clinical Supervisor/Principal Investigator, Asheville, NC
- The CDC 6/18 Initiative: Promoting Public Health-Health Care Collaboration and Reimbursement of Preventive Asthma Control Strategies Elizabeth Herman, Joy Hsu, Tursynbek Nurmagambetov, Lillianne Lewis, Natalie Wilhelm, National Asthma Control Program, Chamblee, GA
- Indoor Environmental Trigger Management as Part of a Comprehensive Approach to Asthma Control Elizabeth Cuervo Tilson, MD, MPH, Medical Director, Community Care of Wake and Johnston Counties