Utah Department of Health Asthma Program

Our Program

The Utah Asthma Program (UAP) Links to an external site. is located at the Utah Department of Health in the Bureau of Health Promotion. It began in December 2001 with the intent to develop state capacity to address asthma, including an occupational component.

The UAP is funded through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC Links to an external site.). In 2014, the program was awarded the Comprehensive Asthma Control through Evidence-based Strategies and Public Health - Health Care Collaboration grant. The cooperative agreement will fund UAP for 5 years to provide comprehensive asthma care by ensuring the availability of and access to guidelines-based medical management and pharmacotherapy to all Utahns with asthma, and to link those with poorly controlled asthma to individualized services. UAP's work plan focuses on three types of strategies to achieve this goal:

1. Infrastructure strategies to support leadership, strategic partnerships, strategic communications, surveillance, and evaluation
2. Services strategies to expand school- and home-based services
3. Health systems strategies to improve coverage, delivery, quality, and use of clinical services.

Expected outcomes from these strategies include better asthma control and quality of life, increased provision of and coverage for comprehensive asthma control services by health care, education, housing, and other organizations, and increased coordination of health care and public health services.

Program Vision

Improving the lives of those with asthma.

Mission

To make sustainable connections to improve the lives of those with asthma based on the following principles:

• Enhance and develop partnerships
• Conduct surveillance and evaluation of asthma
• Promote the use of best practices
• Share resources
• Facilitate open communication