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Outdoor Air and Your Lungs: What You Need to Know Flipchart

The American Lung Association’s Outdoor Air and Your Lungs Flipchart provides consistent education for patients and caregivers in various settings, ensuring flexibility for educators and patients.
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The Outdoor Air and Your Lungs: What You Need to Know Flipchart is designed to equip healthcare providers and public health professionals with the tools necessary to provide education about air quality, extreme weather and lung health to patients and their caregivers.

PLACEHOLDER FOR FLIPCHART

  • Guideline-Based: Aligns with the national air quality and lung health education guidelines.
  • User-Friendly: Written in simple language and addresses health literacy.
  • Accessible: Suitable for various settings, such as medical clinics, pulmonary rehabilitation centers and pharmacies.
  • Engaging: Includes diagrams, QR codes to videos and animations and discussion points.
  • Visually Appealing: Features colorful images and graphics.

Healthcare professionals who may benefit from using the tool with patients and their caregivers include:

  • Primary care physicians
  • Respiratory therapists
  • Nurse practitioners
  • Physician assistants
  • Pulmonologists
  • Community health educators
  • Nurses
  • Pharmacists
  • Public health professionals
  • Case managers and social workers

The Outdoor Air and Your Lungs: What You Need to Know Flipchart will help patients and caregivers:

  • Understand how extreme weather increases the risk of air pollution. 
  • Learn how air pollution affects lung health. 
  • Learn how wildfires, allergens and other irritants affect your lungs.
  • Understand the importance of preparing action plans and communicate changing symptoms with your healthcare provider.
  • Recognize ways to protect lung health and air quality.

How to Get Your Flipchart

  1. Watch the Outdoor Air and Your Lungs: A 10-minute video providing an overview of how to use the flipchart.
  2. Complete the Short Evaluation: This helps us understand how the tool is used and assess its effectiveness.
  3. Secure Your Free Flipchart: After completing the evaluation, follow the instructions provided to have your flipchart delivered to your door.
  4. Commit to a 90-day evaluation: Approximately three months after receiving the Flipchart, you will receive a follow-up evaluation. In exchange for receiving the Flipchart free of charge, you are committing to completing the evaluation.

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If you have questions about the Outdoor Air and Your Lungs: What You Need to Know Flipchart, contact HCPResources@lung.org.

Page last updated: October 28, 2026

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