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Australia
Event: | Asthma is Everybody’s Business: World Asthma Day Activities |
Date: | 05/05/09 Time: All Day |
Location: | Aboriginal Medical Service Western Sydney and Western Clinical School, University of Sydney Westmead Hospital PO Box 533 Wentworthville NSW 2145 Australia |
Description: | To celebrate World Asthma
Day 2009, the Primary Health Care Education and Research
Unit in Sydney West, Australia held two successful
community education activities:
The Triple A Program
Triple A is implemented using a three step process. In the first step, university students or health and education professionals are trained as Triple A Educators in a one day training workshop that provides them with the practical knowledge, skills and tools needed to implement the program in a school. As Educators they visit a high school to deliver a one day workshop to train volunteer Year 11 students as Asthma Peer Leaders, who in turn deliver three asthma lessons to their younger peers, using the strategies mentioned above. The younger students then disseminate core asthma messages to the entire school community, often several hundred pupils and their families, through brief performances such as drama, songs and dance. On this World Asthma Day, thirteen first and second year University of Sydney medical students were trained by Dr. Smita Shah and her team as Triple A educators participated in the program. |
Contact: | Dr. Smita Shah, MBChB, MCH
Director
Primary Health Care Education and Research Unit
Primary Care and Community Health
Sydney West Area Health Service
Clinical Senior Lecturer
Western Clinical School, University of Sydney
Westmead Hospital
PO Box 533
Wentworthville NSW 2145
Australia
Phone: +61 2 9845 6505 Fax: +61 2 9845 8166 Email: Smita_Shah@wsahs.nsw.gov.au |
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