Living Better Together COPD Education Week 2022
Overview
Organization: Respiratory Health Association
Start Date: 11/2022
End Date: 11/2022
Primary Goal: Goal 1: Empower people with COPD, their families, and caregivers to recognize and reduce the burden of COPD.
Secondary Goal(s):
Objective(s):
- Increase public awareness of the risk factors and symptoms of COPD so that earlier diagnosis of symptomatic individuals becomes the norm
Collaboration: We worked alone
Activity Type: Patient education, Event, Material or product
Activity Description
RHA held a week of virtual education activities in honor of COPD Awareness Month. We hosted two webinars: 1) Harms to Health: COPD and Gas Stoves with featured speaker Zach Williams from Physicians for Social Responsibility and 2) An Update on COPD Medications with featured speaker Dr. Lori Wilken from the University of Illinois Chicago. We also mailed out a special edition of our Inspiration newsletter with the feature article, "COPD and Women: What You Need to Know". Lastly, RHA released three new fact sheets, "COPD and Diabetes", "Navigating a Telehealth Appointment, and "COPD MythBusters".Audience
General Audience: Patients, Caregivers or family members, General Public, Health professionals
Focused Audience: n/a
Program Reach: State: Illinois
Type of Area: Urban, Suburban, Rural
Setting: Home, Online
Cost and Funding Sources
We were able to secure outside sponsorship for $5,000 to conduct these activities.Impact Analysis
We had 43 people register for the gas stoves webinar, 67 people register for the medications webinar, and our newsletter was mailed out to 5,200 people.Advice or Lessons Learned
We saw a lot of engagement with the gas stoves webinar, which was a new topic for our organization to cover. I would encourage other organizations to get creative and secure new to you topics or programs.Related Links
Contact Information
Respiratory Health Association
Sr. Director Strategy, Programs & Polic
Chicago
Illinois