BREATHE LA COPD Awareness Day Workshop Offered in Español

COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) makes it difficult to breathe. It is also the 4th leading cause of death in the United States.COPD is mainly caused by smoking cigarettes. If you are over 40 with a history of smoking, you are at risk of having COPD. In 2001, 2,558 Hispanics died of COPD. In 2002, close to 700,000 Hispanic Americans were diagnosed with chronic bronchitis, a form of COPD

Want to learn more about COPD and what to do about it?

Attend

BREATHE LA COPD Awareness Day

Community Workshop

a FREE workshop on COPD to learn what it is, what the symptoms are and what you can do about it.

Friday, November 14, 2008

4pm – 6pm

Echo Park Branch Library

Meeting Room

1410 W. Temple St.

Los Angeles, CA 90026

This workshop will be conducted in Spanish with English language translation.

Or

Contact us for a FREE workshop in your community, conducted by a BREATHE LA Health Educator. Workshops are 30-40 minutes long and can be conducted in either English or Spanish at your agency and/or event.
To schedule a workshop at your agency or community event, please contact:
Everardo Alvizo, MSW Health Educator

Carmen Zapata
Coordinator Health Educator

Pulmones Libres / Breathe Free reaches out to inner city Spanish Speaking Communities in Los Angeles to identify and serve uninsured adults with COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease). An awareness and education program of BREATHE LA, Pulmones Libres / Breathe Free program’s goal is to serve medically indigent adults in the inner city and to offer free workshops for community members and service providers.

For information in Spanish click here.