Finding a Path to Safety in Food Allergy Assessment of the Global Burden, Causes, Prevention, Management, and Public Policy (2017) / Chapter Skim
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10 Final Comments: A Roadmap to Safety
10 Final Comments: A Roadmap to Safety
Pages 379-388
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As explained in Chapter 1, the committee was not charged with developing clinical guidelines but, where appropriate, it states its support for clinical guidelines and recommends that health care providers follow guidelines as they are updated with scientific evidence. The committee was tasked with the following: developing a framework for future directions in understanding food allergy and its impact on individuals, families, and communities; recommending steps to increase public awareness of food allergy; promoting research on both disease causation and management; and informing preventive approaches to food allergy.
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Thus, in prenatal development and early life, key contexts for addressing food allergy include the immediate prenatal environment of the mother, caregiving, home, and early care and education settings, and the larger contextual environments comprising health care provider advice, policies for food
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Health care providers include the persons (e.g., physicians, dieticians) and the institutions that protect individual and public health.
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identify evidence-based prevention approaches, (4) improve education and training of all stakeholders, including health care providers, individuals with food allergy, caregivers, food industry leaders and employers, and others, (5)
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FIGURE 10-2 Roadmap to food allergy safety in six actions.
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The fourth action to greater safety, the committee concluded, is improved education and training of all stakeholders, including health care providers, industry leaders, and employers as appropriate, in recognizing and managing the disease and/or preventing severe reactions. On the one hand, public health and clinical guidelines already exist on how to diagnose, prevent, and manage food allergy (e.g., Guidelines supported by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health and published by the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology)
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On the other hand, little information is available on the extent to which these evidence-based clinical and public health guidelines are used by health care providers and others. In this digital age, consumers rely on sources of information other that the health care providers, augmenting the possibilities for misunderstanding about a chronic disease for which fundamental data are still emerging.
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The committee recognized the need to ensure that appropriate guidance and education is in place to create a safe public environment for individuals with food allergy. To that effect, the committee recommends that relevant federal agencies (e.g., the FDA, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Federal Aviation Administration)
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