Asthma Education is Critical for Community Health
Rather than treating asthma like a string of isolated asthma attacks, doctors are now treating asthma as a chronic condition that affects nearly every aspect of the patient’s life by daily management, medication, and monitoring to help minimize symptoms of asthma and lessen the severity of asthma attacks.
Education offered by your medical facility could mean the difference between life and death for people in your community. Make sure your facility is up-to-date to start getting more patients and creating more revenue with UPS Healthcare.
Education is Key
By teaching the patient and their family how to monitor the own condition, what causes flare-ups, and how to avoid them, you can reduce the number of hospitalizations and emergency room visits.
Using a peak flow meter, an asthmatic can keep track of their lung capacity and seek appropriate help if it wanders into the danger zone. Keeping careful records, you can better treat them.
Don’t Miss The Warning Signs
Many people still don’t recognize the symptoms of asthma unless they see an acute attack – but mild asthma, and the symptoms of chronic asthma, can be devastating to anyone’s life. Chronic respiratory illnesses, bronchitis, pneumonia, and chest pain can keep people out of work and in your emergency room.
By educating the community through public service announcements, outreach programs, clinic visits, and physician incentives, many people with hidden asthma can be reached and treated, reducing the overall costs of health care as well as improving the individual’s health.
Like diabetes education ten years ago, asthma education today can help alert parents, identify asthmatics, and make sure that appropriate treatment is available to everyone who needs it. This is especially important in the case of childhood asthma, where the diagnoses, treatments, and standards of care so often seem to be inequitable.
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