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Event: Asthma is Everybody’s Business: World Asthma Day Activities
Date: 05/05/09 Time: All Day
Location: Aboriginal Medical Service Western Sydney and Western Clinical School, University of Sydney Westmead Hospital PO Box 533 Wentworthville NSW 2145 Australia
Description: To celebrate World Asthma Day 2009, the Primary Health Care Education and Research Unit in Sydney West, Australia held two successful community education activities:
 
  • The Aboriginal Asthma Club Since 2003, the Asthma Club, hosted at the Aboriginal Medical Service Western Sydney, has provided the Aboriginal community with the opportunity to have a yarn, to share experiences about asthma in a supportive environment, and to learn about ways to manage asthma. The Club has inspired many individuals to take control of their own respiratory health as well as supported them in educating their families and community about the issues.
     
  • Katrine Sauvé, a guest speaker from Canada, joined our special celebrations for World Asthma and helped Club members identify possible asthma triggers in their homes and find practical techniques to manage them.

The Triple A Program

Triple A is an award-winning internationally acclaimed peer education program that improves asthma self-management in young people and creates a supportive school environment for those with asthma. Triple A is based on empowerment education and uses a variety of strategies such as videos, games, role-plays and quiz shows to make the program informative and fun. The program resources can be accessed on www.asthma.org.au exiting EPA

Triple A is implemented using a three step process. In the first step, university students or health and education professionals are trained as Triple A Educators in a one day training workshop that provides them with the practical knowledge, skills and tools needed to implement the program in a school. As Educators they visit a high school to deliver a one day workshop to train volunteer Year 11 students as Asthma Peer Leaders, who in turn deliver three asthma lessons to their younger peers, using the strategies mentioned above. The younger students then disseminate core asthma messages to the entire school community, often several hundred pupils and their families, through brief performances such as drama, songs and dance.

On this World Asthma Day, thirteen first and second year University of Sydney medical students were trained by Dr. Smita Shah and her team as Triple A educators participated in the program.

Contact: Dr. Smita Shah, MBChB, MCH Director Primary Health Care Education and Research Unit Primary Care and Community Health Sydney West Area Health Service Clinical Senior Lecturer Western Clinical School, University of Sydney Westmead Hospital PO Box 533 Wentworthville NSW 2145 Australia
Phone: +61 2 9845 6505
Fax: +61 2 9845 8166
Email: Smita_Shah@wsahs.nsw.gov.au 

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