Profile Raising
- Contact politicians and celebrities with asthma to support our cause.
- Locate more people with asthma whom we can follow up.
- Publicize our AACG activities.
- Be actively involved on World Asthma Day (It holds every 5th May).
- Publicize World Asthma Day with posters, billboards, stickers, ribbons, and on social media.
- Carry out an asthma-related research.
- Publish an asthma-related research.
- Include a column/article in the newspaper, your office magazine, departmental/faculty journal.
- Organize an event on World Asthma Day that will “blow our minds” and attract media attention.
- Find establishments that are smoke- and allergen-free so we can publicize them and probably present awards.
- Plan a reception for celebrities with asthma and “ordinary members of the public” with asthma – invite the commissioner for health to participate.
- Write an essay to the government that would suggest steps the government could take to help more people control their asthma and reduce hospitalizations.
- Arrange a photocall for journalists around your asthma-related activities with a strong visual element.
- Develop partnerships to promote increased awareness of asthma as a major public health problem and increased understanding of the concept of asthma control.
- Distribute peak flow meters free-of-charge to asthma patients.
- ource for and distribute dummy inhalers to health professionals that work with asthma patients e.g. community pharmacists.
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