The Hawaii State Asthma Control Program was established in September 2002 through a cooperative agreement with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to develop a Comprehensive State Asthma Plan that include disease tracking, science-based interventions, and state-wide collaboration and partnerships to reduce the burden asthma in the home, school, and workplace. The central role of the program is to provide the impetus to develop program capacity to address asthma from a public health perspective in order to bring about:
a focus on asthma-related activity within the state;
an increased understanding of asthma-related data and its application to program planning through development of an ongoing surveillance system;
an increased recognition within the public health structure of a state of the potential to use a public health approach to reduce the burden of asthma;
linkages of the state to many agencies and organizations addressing asthma in the population;
The Hawaii Asthma Plan serves as a roadmap to improve the quality of care for people with asthma, while focusing on health disparities. This plan is based on the current needs of Hawaii’s communities and is supported by an explicit set of guiding principles. It identifies a congruent set of goals, objectives, and strategies set forth by the Hawaii Asthma Initiative.
The Hawaii Asthma Plan is a call to action to improve Hawaii’s asthma surveillance, empower individuals with asthma, develop a more effective health system, and to improve our environment. While the challenge of asthma is evident, it is through the coordination and mobilization of dedicated partners that we will achievesuccess in the fight against asthma.
The Hawaii State Asthma Control Program is pleased to announce the release of the State of Asthma ~ Hawaii 2004. We hope this document will provide you or your organization with an increased understanding of asthma-related data and its application to program planning.
This report is a compilation of data on asthma in Hawaii. The document presents the most recent information available on the current and lifetime prevalence of asthma, hospitalizations, health status, health/lifestyle behavior, and mortality.
For more information on the State of Asthma ~ Hawaii 2004, please contact the Hawaii State Asthma Control Program at 808-692-7472 or by email at asthma@doh.hawaii.gov.
Childhood Rural Asthma Project - The Childhood Rural Asthma Project was initiated in August 2002, to focus on improving the health, quality of life and functional status of Hawaii's low-income children in rural areas. The project is managed by the Hawaii State Department of Health's Community Health Division and administered by the Hawaii Primary Care Association. The project builds upon the capacity of five rural community health centers to effectively identify, treat and educate pediatric asthma sufferers and their caregivers/families on the islands of Oahu, Kauai, and Hawaii.
Expands asthma outreach and early identification of children with asthma to additional sites in schools, early-childhood education programs, and community based sites;
Builds upon staff expertise acquired in Years 01 and 02, through follow-up training in current state-of-the-art pediatric asthma guidelines and practices;
Strengthens systems focused on identifying, referring, educating, treating and providing case management services for asthma patients at all sites.
Objective #1: Improve health outcomes among 100 children with mild to severe asthma
Objective #2: Expand training in current evidence-based guidelines and effective strategies for the treatment of pediatric asthma at four rural community health centers.
Objective #3: Expand services for pediatric asthma early identification, referral and treatment to at least six additional sites, including schools, preschool programs and community centers.
Coalitions, Task forces, and Workgroups
Partners Against Asthma - was established in November 2001 to build capacity within Hawaii's communities to improve health outcomes for children with asthma.
Objective #1: To increase the early identification of childhood asthma through family education, particularly among high risk groups.
Objective #2: To reduce the severity of asthma episodes and its impact on overall children well being through the promotion of disease management education.
Objective #3: To improve the data collection and reporting system relating to asthma among Hawaii's children.
Contact Information
Hawaii State Asthma Control Program
601 Kamokila Boulevard, Suite 344
Kapolei, Hawaii 96707
Phone: (808) 692-7472
Fax: (808) 692-7461
Email: asthma@doh.hawaii.gov
Acknowledgement:
This site was supported by Cooperative Agreement Number U59/CCU920890-03
from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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The information contained on this site are solely the responsibility of the individual authors and/or agencies and do not
necessarily represent the official views of the Hawaii State Asthma Control Program, Hawaii State Department of Health,
or the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
