Saturday, April 20, 2024
4/20/2024
Project Abstract Summary Asthma is a major burden to the quality of life of Ohioans with asthma and to Ohio’s health care system. In Ohio, 1.25 million adults and 294,000 children reported that they have been told at some time in their life that they have asthma1,2. Although asthma can affect anyone, those most commonly affected in Ohio are children under five years of age, low-income residents, adult women, African Americans, and urban residents. These populations experience significantly higher asthma prevalence, mortality, hospital admission rates, and emergency department (ED) visit rates due to asthma1,3. The Ohio Department of Health Asthma Program’s (ODHAP) proposed strategies for Year 1 will be geographically centered within high priority counties with high child ED and hospitalization rates or high child and adult rates. With the award of this opportunity, ODHAP will work toward improving the number of Ohioans with asthma who have their disease well-controlled to improve quality of life for people with asthma and their caregivers and to decrease asthma-related emergency department and hospitalizations rates. To work toward these results, ODHAP will continue to build upon their strong infrastructure and will focus on strengthening and expanding the implementation of EXHALE strategies throughout the state, most intensely in fifteen high-priority counties of Ohio (Lucas, Erie, Lorain, Cuyahoga, Summit, Ashtabula, Trumbull, Mahoning, Montgomery, Clark, Champaign, Greene, Franklin, Harrison and Hamilton). Broad outcomes that will be addressed include expansion of capacity to deliver services to or refer people with asthma to asthma self-management education (AS-ME). Activities will include a statewide approach using a media campaign which incentivizes participation in educational videos and then a targeted campaign in high-priority counties that focuses on expanding team-based care through building the cadre of professional who can provi de comprehensive services and promoting utilization of services. In addition to building capacity, efforts will also focus, from a variety of perspectives on increasing organizational linkages. ODHAP will develop and implement a Strategic Evaluation and Performance Measurement Plan and a Data Dissemination Plan that will outline specific activities that will ensure that appropriate data is being collected, analyzed and shared with program, partners and stakeholders. The Asthma Information Survey, which has been routinely conducted by ODHAP over that past six years, will aid in documenting increases or changes in what kinds of data have been used and how data has been used. Evaluation activities and reports will also collect the number of evaluation activities that have been conducted and how the results of evaluations have been used to improve program activities or to increase the effectiveness of programs. ODHAP is aware that comprehensive asthma care entails providing a seamless alignment of services across multiple sectors. ODHAP will partner with members of the Ohio Children’s Hospital Association (OCHA) and the Asthma Quality Improvement Collaborative (AQIC) to model evidence- and guidelines-based quality initiatives that will help to provide appropriate clinical care to people with asthma. ODHAP will also be developing tools and resources with our Healthcare Payer Workgroup to assist providers and people with asthma in accessing care and coverage more consistently and efficiently. ODHAP also will continue to work to expand teambased care through linkages between clinical and community services for home and school-based comprehensive care. ODHAP has a strong history of work on asthma in Ohio and the program has developed strong leadership and commitment to this work. Governor DeWine is a strong advocate and Ohio’s State Health Improvement Plan includes objectives to decrease Ohio’s burden of asthma. (see attachment for references)
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