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 mission of the WV-AEPP is to develop, implement, and evaluate a statewide strategic asthma plan in the ultimate interest of reducing the health and economic consequences attributed to asthma in West Virginia. The WV-AEPP aspires to highlight asthma as a priority health concern and to reduce suffering, disability, death, and economic costs related to asthma by:
- Developing a broad-based statewide asthma planning, implementation, and evaluation group
- Analyzing existing data sources to determine the prevalence, cost, and burden of asthma
- Developing a statewide asthma surveillance system
- Publishing and disseminating a report on asthma
- Developing a statewide plan and recommendations to address asthma
- Developing and implementing asthma interventions