9th Annual Air Quality and Health Workshop, March 6-7, Vancouver, BC

The 9th Annual Air Quality and Health Workshop will take place on March 6-7, 2012 in Vancouver, BC. For more information please refer to the text below or visit their website at http://www.bc.lung.ca/association_and_services/air_quality_workshop.html

Day 1 - March 6, 2012: 'Asthma and Air Quality'

REGISTRATION FEE: If you register by January 31st your early bird registration fee is $75. Beginning February 1st, the cost is $100.

GOAL: To provide a state-of-the art overview of new evidence relating to environmental risk factors and the development and exacerbation of asthma.

TARGET AUDIENCE: Government agencies, public health practitioners, members of the public, asthma educators, researchers, and air quality professionals.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES: At the completion of the workshop participants should be able to:
1.Discuss the physiology of asthma, its general epidemiology and current understanding of the role of genetic and environmental factors.
2.Provide examples of key research that has helped elucidate the role of environmental exposures in relation to asthma.
3.Describe the current understanding regarding the role of specific environmental exposures in the etiology of asthma.
4.Identify common and emerging approaches to estimate exposures to the above environmental agents in the epidemiologic studies of asthma.

Day 2 - March 7, 2012: 'Radon - What You Should Know'

REGISTRATION FEE: If you register by January 31st your early bird registration fee is $50. Beginning February 1st, the cost is $75..

RADON is the leading cause of lung cancer, following smoking. Reducing indoor radon exposures through action at the individual, community, and provincial level should be a public health priority in BC.

LEARNING OBJECTIVE: At the completion of the workshop participants will be able to identify ways in which public health practitioners and other stakeholders can move toward reducing residential radon levels in BC homes and buildings.