Master Class Webinar IAQ and Health - Managing Asthma for Improved Health and Academic Outcomes
Recorded May 14, 2015
Webinar Description
Identify, recognize, and address indoor environmental asthma triggers, and employ policies and practices that create a healthier indoor environment and effectively promote asthma management in schools.
Webinar Viewers Will:
- Identify, recognize and address indoor environmental asthma triggers and employ the essential actions for effective asthma management in schools.
- Convey the impact that combining an effective IAQ management plan with an asthma management plan in schools has on student and staff health outcomes and academic performance.
- Describe the actions and behaviors in IAQ Tools for Schools Action Kit and Framework for Effective School IAQ Management can be integrated into a comprehensive asthma management plan to institutionalize policies and practices that create a healthier indoor environment.
- Explain the components of the American Lung Association’s Asthma-Friendly Schools Initiative.
- Replicate the strategies from an award-winning Texas school district that used IAQ Tools for Schools guidance to develop a comprehensive asthma management plan that reduced asthma attacks, increased attendance and improved academic performance by addressing the “asthma symptom threshold.”
Moderator
- Tracy Washington Enger, Facilitator, Indoor Environments Division, U.S. EPA, Washington, DC
Speakers
- Shirley Schantz, Ed.D., A.R.N.P., R.N., Director of Nursing Education, National Association of School Nurses
- Barbara M. Kaplan, M.P.H., C.H.E.S., Director, Asthma Education, American Lung Association, National Office
- Diane Rhodes, B.B.A., RRT, AE-C, RCP, Asthma Awareness Education Program and Assistant Director of Health Services, North East Independent School District, Texas