Black People Like Me Virtual Conference - Session 3: Addressing COPD in the Black Community: Risks, Resources, and Health Equity
Overview
Organization: Allergy & Asthma Network
Start Date: 11/2024
End Date: Ongoing
Primary Goal: Goal 1: Empower people with COPD, their families, and caregivers to recognize and reduce the burden of COPD.
Secondary Goal(s):
- Goal 2: Improve the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and management of COPD by improving the quality of care delivered across the health care continuum.
- Goal 4: Increase and sustain research to better understand the prevention, pathogenesis, diagnosis, treatment, and management of COPD.
Objective(s):
- Increase public awareness of the risk factors and symptoms of COPD so that earlier diagnosis of symptomatic individuals becomes the norm
- Increase the effectiveness and variety of outreach communication campaigns and activities that utilize evidence-based approaches to raise awareness of COPD, particularly among those at high risk, and help people diagnosed with COPD manage the disease
- Expand opportunities to increase COPD awareness across the public-private spectrum
- Develop, disseminate, and maintain unified, multidisciplinary, and patient-centric national guidelines for COPD that are accessible and easy to follow
- Develop and encourage the use of a written, patient-centric COPD management plan tool, with appropriate cultural and health literacy considerations, which can be customized with input from the patient's health care provider(s)
- Improve access to care for people with COPD, particularly for those in hard-to reach areas
- Improve methods for earliest detection and diagnosis and develop effective strategies for preventing the onset and progression of COPD
Collaboration: Along with AAN's Chief Health Equity Officer, Allergy & Asthma Network, Catherine Blackwell, we welcome Cedric “Jamie” Rutland, M.D to help present the information.
Activity Type: Patient education, Provider education
Activity Description
We are hoping to address ongoing disparities and barriers to care for the Black community living with allergic, respiratory, and skin diseases.Audience
General Audience: Patients, Caregivers or family members, At-risk populations, General public, Health professionals, Researchers, Policymakers/advocates
Focused Audience: African American/Black
Program Reach: National
Type of Area: N/A
Setting: Online
Cost and Funding Sources
N/AImpact Analysis
We will provide at a later date.Advice or Lessons Learned
This is an ongoing issue that needs to be addressed. And it takes a "village" to build upon it.Contact Information
Allergy & Asthma Network
Allergy & Asthma Network
Fairfax
Virginia