The National Asthma Campaign (NAC) is a multi-stakeholder not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to:
- Making quality care available to all persons with asthma, allowing them
to lead normal, productive lives
- Teaching persons with asthma, as well as clinicians, educators, and
employers, how to recognize and properly manage the disease
- Reducing lost school and work days, as well as emergency department
visits and hospitalizations and their effects
NAC will accomplish its mission through local and national educational programs consistent with the NAEPP* Expert Panel Report 3 asthma guidelines and Healthy People 2010† goals for asthma.
*National Asthma Education and Prevention Program, an initiative of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
†Healthy People 2010 is a set of national health objectives aimed at improving the health and lives of all Americans.
To learn more about NAC’s mission, please click here.
Knowledge, Empowerment, Partnership
Asthma CAN be managed and ALL patients deserve quality care. Empowered patients demand better care and understand the goals of treatment. A national asthma campaign will help EMPOWER patients to PARTNER with their healthcare providers:
- When asthma patients are EMPOWERED and take control of their own care, then the asthma becomes controlled
- NAC will combine AWARENESS and EDUCATION efforts
NAC will plan the following to build a bridge to quality care:
- Patient RESOURCES, enabling patients to take control of their asthma care
- Clinician EDUCATION, helping to provide guideline-appropriate care
- Advocated PARTNERSHIPS in asthma care
- Help for underserved populations to ACCESS quality information and asthma care resources
