What is Asthma?
Asthma is a serious, sometimes life-threatening respiratory disease that affects the quality of life for thousands of Native Americans. Although there is no cure for asthma yet, asthma can be controlled through medical treatment and management of environmental triggers. The IAQTC staff is committed to educating all Native Americans about asthma so that everyone knows what asthma is, how the environment can affect asthma patients and how to manage environmental asthma triggers.
Asthma webinar:
Click HERE for webinar.National Asthma Forum:
The National Asthma Forum was held June 9-10, 2011, in Washington, DC. Four tribal staff and ITEP IAQTC staff attended the National Asthma Forum. The purpose of attending the conference was to develop partnership with the IAQTC staff to address asthma in tribal communities.
National Asthma ForumArizona Asthma Coalition:
The IAQTC staff is collaborating with the Arizona Asthma Coalition in order to promote asthma education throughout Arizona. The coalition includes both health providers and environmental staff. For more information on the coalition, visit the website or contact Mansel Nelson.
Arizona Asthma CoalitionAsthmaCommunityNetwork.org announces the launch of a new podcast series:Conversations for Advancing Action
AsthmaCommunityNetwork.org
Asthma Education Resources
In collaboration with the IAQTC staff the EPA Tribal IAQ program has put together a PowerPoint that can help with Asthma Education.
For more information on asthma education go to EPA Asthma Basics for Tribal Communities.
In collaboration with the IAQTC staff the EPA Tribal IAQ program has put together a PowerPoint that can help with Asthma Education.
For more information on asthma education go to EPA Asthma Basics for Tribal Communities.
For more information please contact:
Mansel Nelson, Sr. Program Coordinator
Tel: 928/523-1275
Email: Mansel.Nelson@nau.edu
Last updated: May 16, 2013