Sunday, May 11, 2025
5/11/2025
Pennsylvania's Comprehensive Public Health Approach to Asthma Control Through Evidence-Based Interventions - The Pennsylvania Department of Health’s (DOH) Asthma Program is pleased to respond to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO)-CDC- RFA-EH19-1902. Asthma is a widespread and serious health threat. In the United States, in 2016, more than 20 million adults (8.3 percent), and over six million children (8.3 percent) reported that they have asthma. In Pennsylvania in 2016, approximately 1.1 million adults (10.6 percent) and approximately 240,000 children (8.9 percent) stated that they have asthma. The prevalence of current asthma among adults and children in Pennsylvania is higher than the prevalence of current asthma among adults and children in the United States. While asthma affects persons of all ages, races, income level and gender, certain populations have shown much higher prevalence rates than other groups. In Pennsylvania, asthma disproportionately affects the following populations; children, boys (among children), females (among adults), the elderly, non-Hispanic blacks, Hispanics, residents of low socioeconomic status and residents of urban areas. The purpose of this application is to strengthen and expand upon comprehensive asthma care systems already in place in PA, building on the work of CDC-RFA-EH14-1404 and reorganizing its deployment. The ACP will primarily implement the EXHALE technical package in two high-burden areas (Philadelphia and Allegheny County) through both current and new funded partners, providing education and resources in health care, community, school and home settings. During the period of performance for this application, Pennsylvania proposes to update, analyze and report all core data sets and measures to CDC; expand the number of documented linkages between EXHALE components; increase the number of supported comprehensive asthma services in high-burden areas; document improvements in asthma control, emergency department visits, hospitalizations, and number of patients receiving asthma self-management education as a result of quality improvement initiatives; use evaluation findings to improve program activities and increase program effectiveness; increase asthma self-management education participation and completion rates; and improve asthma control among those completing asthma self-management education. These outcomes will be achieved through maintaining and expanding current activities of the Pennsylvania Asthma Control Program in partnership with the Community Asthma Prevention Program, Quality Insights, and the American Lung Association to address asthma burden by implementing EXHALE strategies in Southeastern PA and expanding the reach of program activities into Allegheny County by partnering with the Allegheny County Health Department.
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