COPD National Action Plan:
Community Action Tool
Discover the progress the COPD community has made toward implementing the goals and objectives in the COPD National Action Plan.

What You Should Know About COPD Webinar

Overview

Organization: Allergy & Asthma Network
Start Date: 02/2023
End Date: 02/2023
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.
Objective(s):
  • Increase public awareness of the risk factors and symptoms of COPD so that earlier diagnosis of symptomatic individuals becomes the norm
  • 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 a unified, multidisciplinary educational curriculum for health care professionals, including primary health care providers, using harmonized clinical practice guidelines
Collaboration: We worked alone
Activity Type: Patient education, Provider education

Activity Description

This activity supports the COPD national action plan Goal 1: Build awareness (Empower people with COPD, their families and caregivers to recognize and reduce the burden of COPD.)

Audience

General Audience: Patients, Caregivers or family members, General public, Health professionals
Focused Audience: n/a
Program Reach: National
Type of Area: Urban, Suburban, Rural
Setting: Online

Cost and Funding Sources

This activity supports the COPD national action plan Goal 1: Build awareness (Empower people with COPD, their families and caregivers to recognize and reduce the burden of COPD.)

Impact Analysis

Quantitative Data to be collected at Event, along with follow up with participant, and also provide education for those participating in the webinar.

Advice or Lessons Learned

It has become very important to engage and reach out to the whole community as best we can, in any way that we are able.

Contact Information

Andrea Jensen
Allergy & Asthma Network
Education Specialist
Fairfax
Virginia