The COPD National Action Plan: Tracking Our Progress Workshop
Overview
Organization: National Heart Lung and Blood Institute
Start Date: 11/2019
End Date: 11/2019
Primary Goal: Goal 4: Increase and sustain research to better understand the prevention, pathogenesis, diagnosis, treatment, and management of COPD.
Secondary Goal(s):
- Goal 1: Empower people with COPD, their families, and caregivers to recognize and reduce the burden of COPD.
- Goal 2: Improve the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and management of COPD by improving the quality of care delivered across the health care continuum.
- Goal 3: Collect, analyze, report, and disseminate COPD-related public health data that drive change and track progress.
- Goal 5: Translate national policy, educational, and program recommendations into research and public health care actions.
Objective(s):
- Enhance and optimize our capacity to collect and aggregate data from multiple sources, including at local, regional, and national levels, and turn them into actionable information.
- Facilitate dissemination of data and analyses. Report the prevalence of COPD in accordance with the requirements of public health and health care organizations
- Help expand, coordinate, and optimize COPD research efforts
- Define and characterize the pathogenesis of COPD heterogeneity
- Develop personalized medicine for COPD based on the pathogenesis and clinical heterogeneity
- Promote research that can lead to strategies that help prevent the onset and progression of COPD and improve the quality of COPD care and management
- Put into action prevention strategies that are proven effective in addressing the 80 percent of COPD deaths due to smoking
- Create a collaborative official entity that implements, prioritizes, and tracks activities in accordance with the COPD National Action Plan's goals and objectives
- Develop personalized medicine for COPD based on the pathogenesis and clinical heterogeneity
- Develop and implement COPD quality measures into national care delivery
Collaboration: We worked alone
Activity Type: Patient education, Event, Health care delivery, Provider education, Research, Policy/advocacy
Activity Description
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) held a daylong workshop, COPD National Action Plan: Tracking Our Progress, on November 13, 2019, at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. We discussed the progress the COPD community has made toward implementing the goals and objectives in the COPD National Action Plan, and how to collectively track these efforts.Panel presentations discussed federal agency efforts to address COPD, national initiatives by supporting organizations, and approaches targeted to individual audiences. Afternoon discussions gathered feedback on how to track, report, and achieve the National Action Plan's goals.
Audience
General Audience: Patients, Caregivers or family members, At-risk populations, General Public, Health professionals, Researchers, Policymakers/advocates
Focused Audience: n/a
Program Reach: National
Type of Area: Urban, Suburban, Rural
Setting: Community, Health care, Workplace, Online
Cost and Funding Sources
The workshop was funded through the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute.Impact Analysis
The Recorded Session: COPD National Action Plan: Tracking Our Progress, has been viewed a total of 374 views (156 Live, 218 On-demand).Advice or Lessons Learned
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National Heart Lung and Blood Institute
Program Analyst
Bethesda
Maryland