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ABOUT
As part of a cooperative agreement
with the Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) aimed at improving indoor air
quality and reducing exposure to harmful
indoor air pollutants, the American
College of Preventive Medicine (ACPM) is
committed to providing high-quality,
clinical and population-based education,
training and tools* to physicians and
health care providers nation-wide. As part
of these efforts, ACPM partners with
leading environmental health experts to
convene multi-disciplinary in-person
skill-building institutes across the
country.
These
workshops are held at the ACPM
Preventive Medicine annual
conference and at the annual meetings of
other national clinical professional
societies. The indoor air pollutant
institutes offer participants education
and training on effective practices to
improve indoor air quality. The
institutes, target preventive medicine and
primary care physicians and other health
professionals and focus on teaching
providers how to use and implement tools,
such as
Indoor Air Pollution :Detecting Illness,
Educating Patients*,
to diagnose and counsel patients exposed
to asthma triggers and environmental
tobacco smoke (ETS), especially children
and low income individuals.
PRESENTATIONS
Taking an Environmental Health History
Environmental Management of Asthma
Innovative Approaches and Tools for
Educating Patients
RESOURCES
AAPA News
Association of Clinicians for the
Underserved (ACU)
ACU Asthma Trigger Reduction Tool Card
National Environmental Education
Foundation (NEEF)
NEEF Publications
EPA Asthma Community Network
EPA National Service Center for
Environmental Publications
Preventive Medicine 2007 CDROM
ACPM has
developed the indoor air pollutant
skill-building institute for the ACPM
annual meeting, Preventive Medicine
2007 and the 2008 American Academy
of Physician Assistants 36th
Annual Conference. The institute will
also be featured at
Preventive Medicine 2009 in Los
Angeles, California. If you are interested
in bringing the institute to your
professional meeting, please contact
Michele Surricchio at
msurricchio@acpm.org.
*For a full list of indoor air tools
and resources offered by ACPM, please
visit
http://www.acpm.org/education/iaq/.
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