The West Virginia Asthma Education and Prevention Program (WV-AEPP) was created by the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources through a grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The WV-AEPP is located within the Bureau for Public Health’s Division of Health Promotion and Chronic Disease (Chronic Disease Section).
The WV-AEPP aspires to highlight asthma as a priority health concern and to reduce suffering, morbidity, death, and economic costs related to asthma by:
- Maintaining a broad-based statewide asthma coalition
- Maintaining a statewide asthma surveillance system and promulgating to partners and stakeholders information about the prevalence, morbidity, mortality, and cost of asthma
- Developing, implementing, and evaluating a statewide strategic plan for addressing asthma in West Virginia
- Developing and implementing interventions aimed at reducing the burden of asthma to our state.
The WV-AEPP, with assistance from its many partners from the West Virginia Asthma Coalition and the American Lung Association of West Virginia, has made significant progress in addressing the asthma problem in West Virginia. We invite you to join us in our efforts to ensure the best health outcomes possible for our citizens with this chronic disease.
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