Neath Port Talbot Local Service Board Air Quality and Health Project
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Insert Practice Header airAware Port Talbot Air Quality and Health Project Do you want to be part of a new project that may help protect your health? Research shows that local air quality can have an impact on people’s health, especially those who have a chronic heart or lung condition. Monitoring of the air in Port Talbot shows that it has improved over many years. There remain however, short periods of time when air quality fails to meet normal standards. New technology has allowed us to develop an air quality information system called “airAware”. This will automatically send you a message to let you know when air quality may affect your health, and give you timely advice on actions you could take to reduce possible health effects. The system will be tested in an area of Port Talbot where the air quality is measured continuously. We would like to invite you to join this free service. You can choose to receive the health advice messages via e-mail, text (SMS) to a mobile telephone or a recorded voice message to a landline. The project will run for up to two years and we will be looking at feedback from you to see whether it would be useful to make the service more widely available. Your help would be invaluable. If you think this service might be of interest to you, please read the enclosed information on how to sign up, or if you have internet access, look at our website www.airaware.co.uk If you would like more information regarding this service, please contact the dedicated helpline based at NHS Direct Wales on 0300 100 1300. They will be happy to help. With best wishes, Dr Sanjay Challisery, Afan Community Network Lead, Neath Port Talbot Locality, ABM Health Board Dr Ann Delahunty, Public Health Consultant, Public Health Wales Welcome to airAware Port Talbot a ydc ndry ee airAware neges derbyn yn fyddwch pan This leaflet contains information about how hno ry y alc iwneud ei gallwch y hyn yr ar chyngor airAware works and advice on what you am sut mae airAware yn gweithio a a gweithio yn airAware mae sut am can do when you receive an airAware a’ alnhny yny gwybodaeth cynnwys yn hon daflen Mae’r message Port Talbot Port airAware Croeso i i Croeso Welcome to airAware! You are invited to sign up to airAware, a unique air quality information service for people in Port Talbot who suffer from heart or lung conditions including asthma. If you have one of these conditions you may be affected by the quality of air around you. (COMEAP). airAware will alert you to air quality that may affect aer ansawdd ar Aer Lygryddion ar Meddygol Effeithiau your health so that you can take simple steps to help Pwyllgor gan gyngor ar seiliedig yn gwasanaeth Mae’r reduce the likelihood of any effects. This includes luioauadn’ well. amdano’n ofalu i elpu taking your inhaler or angina spray with you, taking h eich gallai hyn, symptomau extra doses if symptoms worsen (as previously o’r un unrhyw ag sydd rywun am gofalu yn ydych Os advised by your doctor or nurse) and avoiding hynny. diwrnodau y ar agored awyr gweithgareddau strenuous outdoor activity on those days. If you care osgoi ac llaw) ymlaen hyn wneud i cynghori for someone with these symptoms it may help you wedi’ch nyrs eich neu meddyg eich yw (os gwaethygu look after them better. symptomau’n y bydd os ychwanegol dognau cymryd ela niagd chi, gyda angina relliad chwist eich neu mewnanadlydd The service is based upon advice from The cludo’ch gynnwys hyn Gallai effeithiau. unrhyw hau’r tebygolrwydd y bydd y tebygolrwydd hau’r Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollutants lei helpui camausymli hdflyglwhgymryd gallwch y fel chyd (COMEAP) on air quality. ie eich ar effeithio allai ydarwr nec hbdi maswdara aer ansawdd am rhybuddio eich yn airAware Bydd feti rohchi. arnoch effeithio norcfya y,gla nad raroc cwmpas o’ch aer yr ansawdd gallai hyn, cyflyrau o’r un tm.O e gennych oes Os sthma. a gynnwys gan ysgyfaint neu’r bobl ym Mhort Talbot sy’n dioddef o gyflwr ar y galon y ar gyflwr o dioddef sy’n Talbot Mhort ym bobl gwasanaeth gwybodaeth unigryw am ansawdd aer i i aer ansawdd am unigryw gwybodaeth gwasanaeth Fe’ch gwahoddir i gofres i gwahoddir Fe’ch tru gydag airAware, sef airAware, gydag tru Croeso i airAware! i Croeso Air Quality and Health COMEAP advises that poor air quality can worsen the condition of individuals with heart or lung disease and can aggravate, but not cause asthma. geisio cyngor meddygol yn ôl yr arfer. yr ôl yn meddygol cyngor geisio Healthy Individuals ylr sndy’ aa m nhludylech helpu yn yma camau yw’r nad Os cyflwr. Are unlikely to notice or suffer from any serious or iync ygrafrlec edga el eich reoli am meddyg eich arferol cyngor Dilynnwch lasting ill-health effects from levels of air quality experienced in the UK. dioddef o angina. angina. o dioddef yo.Ealibd ne irt pa rbb yn bobl ar spray nitrate angen bydd Efallai cyson. People with asthma or lung disease ydagndfydoc enndydy fwy yn mewnanadlydd defnyddio’ch angen bydd Symptoms are unlikely to change when air quality yr awyr agored. Efallai agored. awyr yr shaflgetgrda yn gweithgareddau fel asthma levels are in the green band. This applies whatever the a wedgd achosion gyda gwneud l mae fetiulyrd e fe aer llygredd effeithiau time of year. Symptoms may get worse as air quality tlnugwrthdroi neu atal i u eod yi yrdcama cymryd Dylid henoed. deteriorates, especially for the elderly. Steps should a a nad e ndrwo newdgy yr yn enwedig yn dirywio, yn aer ansawdd mae pan then be taken to prevent or reverse the effects of air rygdlyfwdy.Gl ypoa gwaethygu symptomau Gall flwyddyn. y gydol trwy pollutants as with other triggers of asthma attacks such raswdary adwrd a w nwir yn hwn Mae werdd. band y yn aer ansawdd yr as cold air and exercise. You may need to take your a ypoa nahbglonwdpnmelefel mae pan newid o anhebygol yn symptomau Mae inhalers more frequently. People with angina may need Pobl yn dioddef o asthma neu cyflwr yr ysgyfaint yr cyflwr neu asthma o dioddef yn Pobl to use their nitrate spray. gyffredin yn y DU. y yn gyffredin Follow your doctor’s usual advice about managing your irflnubrasolfluaswdaraboi yn brofir a aer ansawdd lefelau o barhaus neu difrifol condition. If these steps don’t help, seek medical advice odfury effeithiau unrhyw ioddef naneyo yw e dd neu sylwi o annhebygol Yn as you usually would. nglo Iachus Unigolion ysgyfaint ac y gall waethygu, gall y ac ysgyfaint ond nid achosi, asthma. achosi, nid ond atyucfw nglo gaicyo ao neu’r galon y afiechydon ag unigolion cyflwr waethygu a OEPy oiygl nad e gwael aer ansawdd gall y nodi yn COMEAP Mae Ansawdd Aer ac Iechyd ac Aer Ansawdd Health Message The following health messages will be sent to you when the air quality level reaches the yellow band or above. Air Quality Public Health Message Band (Messages based on COMEAP advice) Green Enjoy your usual outdoor activities Yellow If you experience symptoms consider reducing strenuous physical activity, particularly outdoors Amber Reduce strenuous physical activity, particularly outdoors. Keep reliever inhaler with you. Follow doctor’s usual advice about managing your condition Red Avoid strenuous physical activity, particularly outdoors. Keep reliever inhaler with you. Follow doctor’s usual advice about managing your condition -otircfiiddewisiwyd. cyfeiriad i’r e-bost How does airAware work? e wbdehacygrba ricy drwy iechyd ar bras chyngor a gwybodaeth a aer When air quality may affect your health, you will receive yoat maswdyr ansawdd am wybodaeth Byddwch yn derbyn yr un un yr derbyn yn Byddwch a health advice message. This automated service will e-bost operate between 7am and 10pm. Outside of these neu hours information will be available at www.airaware.co.uk nhwngsarall. neges unrhyw (os oes gennych un), fel un), gennych oes (os ee rec eratateb peiriant eich ar neges You can receive a message by selecting ONE of the lwdngswd’ eodo ydarwr ngadael yn airAware Bydd recordio. wedi’i neges clywed following: ydarwr nfoi nô rafrabdwhyn byddwch a arfer yr ôl yn ffonio yn airAware Bydd ee as( fnec cartref) eich ffôn (i lais Neges Mobile phone neu airAware will send a text message to your (or your carer’s) mobile phone. Messages will give air quality bras am iechyd. iechyd. am bras information and brief health advice. yn rhoi gwybodaeth am ansawdd yr aer a chyngor a aer yr ansawdd am gwybodaeth rhoi yn symudol chi (neu eich gofalwr). Bydd y negeseuon y Bydd gofalwr). eich (neu chi symudol or ydarwr nafnngsdsu tec ffôn eich at destun neges anfon yn airAware Bydd Voice message (to home phone) ee fnSymudol Ffôn Neges Your home phone will ring as normal and you will hear a recorded message. airAware can leave a message on canlynol: your answer phone (if you have one), just like any other Gallwch dderbyn neges drwy ddewis UN o’r UN ddewis drwy neges dderbyn Gallwch message. or nwww.airaware.co.uk yn e- mail n ydgyoat rgael ar gwybodaeth bydd yn, 0m ualniroiuh oriau i’r allan tu Y 10pm. You will receive air quality information and brief health y gwasanaeth awtomatig hwn ar waith rhwng 7am a 7am rhwng waith ar hwn awtomatig gwasanaeth y advice via email to your selected address. eich iechyd, byddwch yn derbyn neges o gyngor.