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Show Respiratory Ailments Are High in Utah As Ihe Chief of the Pulmonary Disease Program Pro-gram of ihe Utah Slate Division of Health, Dr. Flton Newman is a physician phy-sician who "thinks of every ev-ery Claim as my patient", and thai isn't so strange when one considers that Ftahns have a very high incidence of chronic respiratory res-piratory disease -- "one of the highest in the nation", na-tion", says Dr. Newman. "The rate of increase for emphysema and chronic chro-nic bronchitis is particularly parti-cularly alarming, evena-mong evena-mong women, and we are particularly anxious to apply the latest knowledge in reversing the trend." To get the ball rolling. Dr. Newman has teamed up w ith the Intermountain Regional Medical Program, Pro-gram, and is, this week, finishing a two-week in-tonsix in-tonsix e training course on new respiratory disease diagnostic and treatment procedures sponsored by that agency. 1RMP, a federally fed-erally funded health care agency administered at the local level, is presently presen-tly funding virtually all respiratory disease de-lection de-lection and training programs pro-grams in Ihe Suite of I'tah. It's sole concern is with improving health care in the Intermountain Region, and it works hand-in-hand with physicians local and state health agencies in implementing new programs pro-grams such as those concerned con-cerned with respiratory i disease detection and tra- ining. In addition to Dr. Newman, fifteen public health and other physicians physi-cians from I'tah. Idaho and Wyoming have taken or are scheduled to take i the training course. i "I felt the need to up -i dale my training in this i area", said Dr. Newman. "and have found the IRMP , course to be most useful , and informative. They are free wheeling sessions ( that give me plenty of ; time to observe, ask questions, read and to learn on my own -- as well as the benefit of actual experience on rounds and in the laboratory labor-atory with such pulmonary pulmon-ary specialists as Dr. Richard Kanner at the University Medical Center. Cen-ter. The changes are so rapid," explained Dr. Newman, "that these courses are really essential essen-tial in keeping abreast of new developments. Maybe this way," he added with a wry grin and a twinkle in his eye, "I can at least keep a-head a-head of my nurses." On a more serious note, Dr. Newman added that he feels early detection is the key to prevention and a successful treatment, treat-ment, and that "prevention "preven-tion of disease is the traditional role of public health". Statewide detection detec-tion surveys, training programs for physicians and nurses, public information infor-mation and education programs, pro-grams, and a voluntary file of respiratory disease di-sease patients are components com-ponents of IRMP's program pro-gram to combat chronic respiratory disease. |