RESOURCES
On this page you will find a listing of useful documents
and FAQs about asthma and indoor/outdoor air pollution from federal and
state agency resources.
CDC
- Bam! Body and Mind Kid’s
Page [external link]
BAM! Body and Mind is an online destination created by CDC for kids aged
9-13 years to give them information they need to make healthy lifestyle
choices.
- National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health
Promotion/Division of Adolescent and School Health
- Healthy Youth:
Asthma Web Site
Information on CDC programs and resources that deal with asthma
among youths and attempt to assess school health policies and
programs at the state, district, school, and classroom levels ...more
- National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
- Asthma and
Allergies Web site
Facts about indoor environmental quality in an office or other work
building environment, plus other resources such as the NIOSHTIC
searchable bibliographic database of occupational safety and health
publications ...more
- Office of Genomics and Disease Prevention
Non CDC
- Training Tools for Health Professionals
- Allergy and Asthma
Network, Mothers of Asthmatics (AANMA)
[external link]
AANMA, a national nonprofit network of families, offers information
about living with allergies and asthma ...more
- Alliance of Community
Health Plans [external link]
- Allies Against
Asthma [external link]
- Allies Against
Asthma Resource Bank [external link]
This is a centralized system for sharing information about tools
and materials that may be useful to coalitions and community
programs addressing asthma ...more
- American Academy of
Allergy, Asthma & Immunology [external link]
- Taking on Asthma
[external link]
This site provides information about an initiative to reduce the
negative health consequences associated with asthma ...more
- American Association of
Health Plans [external link]
- Taking on Asthma
[external link]
This site provides information about an initiative to reduce the
negative health consequences associated with asthma ...more
- American Lung Association's Asthma Site
[external link]
ALA provides information about
asthma and
older people,
teens and
asthma, asthma medicines and
attacks,
peak flow
meters, and
home control
of allergies and asthma.
- Asthma and Allergy
Foundation of America [external link]
AAFA provides information about asthma and allergy education,
advocacy, and research ...more
- Association of State and Territorial Health Officials
A new publication from ASTHO’s Environmental Health program is a
case study on using educational data for asthma surveillance. The
case study titled, "Tracking Childhood Asthma with School Data in
Three States," features asthma surveillance programs that have
incorporated school-based data into their work. States included in
the case study are Connecticut, Maine, and Massachusetts. The case
study is available online at
http://www.astho.org/pubs/
TrackingChildhoodAsthmawithSchoolDataFeb.2006-final.pdf
[PDF, 96 Kb]
[external link]
- Center for Health Care Strategies (CHCS)
CHCS directs national programs on behalf of two major health care
philanthropies: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and The Annie E.
Casey Foundation.
-
Improving Asthma Care for Children Program
[external link]
Improving Asthma Care for Children projects underway at five
health plans are seeking to improve the health and
health-related quality of life for children with asthma, develop
and sustain partnerships with key community stakeholders, and
institutionalize innovative clinical models in asthma care ...more
- Institute of Medicine
- National Association of State Boards of Education
-
State-Level School Health Policies
[external link]
This site includes information on state legal codes, rules,
standards, administrative orders, mandates, and resolutions, and
links to additional resources ...more
- National Conference of
State Legislatures (NCSL) [external link]
NCSL is a bipartisan, national forum for state lawmakers to
communicate with one another and to share ideas on various topics,
including asthma.
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
[external link]
NIAID provides support for scientists conducting research aimed at
developing better ways to diagnose, treat, and prevent asthma ...more
- National Library of
Medicine (NLM) [external link]
NLM, the largest online medical library, provides health
information, library services, research programs, and general
information related to topics such as asthma ...more
-
PBS Kid's Asthma Tips [external link]
This site helps children learn what asthma is, what can trigger
asthma attacks, and how to stay active and healthy if they have
asthma ...more
-
Quest for the Code: An Adventure Game About Managing Asthma for
Children [external link]
This site provides information on a free CD-ROM created to help
children ages 7 to 15 learn how to manage their asthma ...more
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
- AirNow Web site
[external link]
This site offers air quality information by state and select
cities, air quality forecasts and corresponding health effects,
ozone maps, air pollution publications, and steps you can take to
reduce air pollution ...more
- Asthma and Indoor
Environments [external link]
This document provides information on how to reduce common asthma
triggers in the home and other indoor environments ...more
-
Clear Your Home of Asthma Triggers
[PDF, 245 Kb] [external link]
This document provides information on how to eliminate asthma
triggers in the home and how to reduce symptoms in children.
- Mold,
Moisture and Your Home [external link]
This guide tells how to clean up residential mold problems and
prevent mold growth ...more
Other Environmental Hazards & Health Effects Topics
- Environmental
Public Health Indicators Project
List of core indicators, links to individual indicators, data sources ...more
- Environmental
Public Health Tracking Program
About the program, communication library, conferences and meetings, data
resources, partnerships ...more
- Health Studies
Cancer clusters, CAFOs, harmful algal blooms, water, pesticides, chemicals,
disaster epi ...more
- Radiation
Studies
General radiation facts, public health research, radon research ...more
