A program of the American Lung Association, implemented in Office of School Health, Department of Health Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Open Airways for Schools (OAS). Open Airways for Schools: Research Base( Program. The American Lung Association mission goals are to: Eliminate tobacco. Establish programs involving asthma management, education and awareness at the local school level to: Help monitor. Open Airways For Schools; Asthma-Friendly Schools Initiative; Early Childhood Asthma Programs.

Students with asthma can learn how to manage their illness through a new program sponsored by the American Lung Association. Open Airways for Schools is targeted to third-, fourth- and fifth-graders. Students with asthma are invited to participate in the program with a parent's permission.The program was introduced to North Carolina schools last year.

Jan 27, 2012 Open Airways For Schools teaches children 8 -- 11 how to better self-manage their asthma. The program is led by an American Lung Association trained. For the last several years, in partnership with the Pioneer Valley Asthma Coalition, the American Lung Association of the Northeast has provided the Open Airways for Schools program to elementary schools in the Greater Springfield area.

This year, participation has increased significantly, says Maureen Ballsieper of the American Lung Association. Of 61 Guilford County schools that were approached to participate, all but five agreed to host the program. Participants meet weekly for six 40-minute lessons. Students at Peeler Open School in Greensboro and Union Hill Elementary in High Point are midway through the program. The American Lung Association says asthma is the leading serious chronic illness among children. A family guide says the illness affects minority groups the hardest.

The guide states that nearly 61 of every 1,000 African Americans have asthma, compared to 50 of every 1,000 white Americans. Also, the death rate for black Americans is almost three times that of white people. No one knows why this is so. However, it is believed that people with asthma who live in inner cities are exposed to more asthma triggers.

Also, deaths from asthma occur more frequently in people whose disease is poorly controlled. Tirupathi Venkatachalapathy Songs Free Download In Tamil on this page. Asthma accounts for 10 million lost school days annually and is the leading cause of school absenteeism attributed to chronic conditions, according to the Lung Association.

Open Airways teaches students to recognize and manage asthma symptoms and find and control asthma triggers. Ballsieper is the assistant area director for the American Lung Association that serves 15 North Carolina counties, including Guilford and Forsyth counties. Ballsieper says she's not sure just how many lost school days in Guilford County are asthma-related. Open Airways is a requirement in New York City schools, where one in three children are affected by asthma.