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About vac
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The Virginia Asthma Coalition was created through collaboration between the Virginia Department of Health and the American Lung Association of Virginia and the Virginia Department of Education. The VAC provides a forum for people to exchange ideas on ways to improve the quality of asthma care in Virginia. VAC members include: physicians, nurses, parents, health providers, governmental agencies, respiratory therapists and others who are concerned about controlling asthma throughout Virginia. |
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The mission of the Virginia Asthma Coalition is to reduce illness and death due to asthma among the citizens of the Commonwealth. |
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- Provide education about asthma and asthma management to persons with asthma and their caregivers; to public health advocates, school personnel, policy makers and childcare providers.
- Increase awareness of environmental asthma triggers, and advocate for clean indoor air.
- Provide education to health care providers to ensure they are knowledgable about scientific advances and guidelinces for the treatment and mangement of astham.
- Ensure surveillance and analysis of available data on the prevalance, incidence, morbidity and mortality of asthma to demonstrate the burden of asthma in Virginia and generate policy change.
- Provide leadership to local asthma coalitions to coordinate activities and provide linkages among community-based, state and federal asthma initiatives.
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