Healthy Cities traveled to Argentina. This project was born in 2016 under the name "Healthy cities for the improvement of childhood asthma". An initiative developed by the Lovexair Foundation that was endorsed by the Spanish Association of Primary Care Pediatrics (AEPap), the Spanish Society of Clinical Immunology and Pediatric Asthma (SEICAP), the Spanish Society of Pediatric Pneumology (SENP) and the Fundación of Education for Health (FUNDADEPS), with the collaboration of Novartis.

The project traveled to stay permanently at the Dr. Orlando Alassia Children's Hospital, in Santa Fe, Argentina. This activity was part of the Extension Project of Social Interest "Children's asthma: Health promotion actions aimed at knowing, preventing and collaborating in the diagnosis of the disease" (PEIS 2018) of the National University of the Coast. (https://www.unl.edu.ar/extension/proyectos/)

The objectives were:

Develop actions to promote respiratory health and prevent respiratory diseases, mainly childhood asthma, aimed at recognizing the symptoms of asthma that have to make us go to the doctor's office to thus facilitate early diagnosis. It was during this phase of the project that the Asthma Trivial and Asthma Goose games were delivered to the Hospital so that hospitalized children could play them.

Carry out the eosinophil count in induced sputum and nasal swabs in children older than 6 years with a diagnosis of asthma, in order to collaborate with the diagnostic confirmation of the disease and improve the therapy of childhood asthma.

Since the context in this case was in a hospital, materials that can be cleaned easily and paint suitable for children were chosen. A modification of the game figures and language was carried out to adapt it to the Argentine context, these modifications were carried out by Medicine and Biochemistry students and corrected by Dr. Meneghetti (Head of the Respiratory Medicine Unit of said Hospital, member of the Project).

We thank Dr. Mariana C. Cabagna Zenklusen (Chair of Normal Morphology, Faculty of Biochemistry and Biological Sciences, Santa Fe, Argentina) for having approached us to carry out this activity and its coordination – and to the volunteers who made it possible, as well as all our partners who keep this project alive.

If you want to bring this project to your school, a hospital or a civic center, contact us at comunciacion@lovexair.com and we will help you carry it out.