Selected Policy and Practice Guides and Reports

• Environmental Council of the States and Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, Catching Your Breath: Strategies to Reduce Environmental Factors that Contribute to Asthma in Children. A Report from the Working Group of Representatives from State Health and Environmental Agencies, 2003.

• Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Air and Radiation, Office of Radiation and Indoor Air, Indoor Environment Division (6609J), Internal Air Quality Tools for Schools: Managing Asthma in the School of Environment, Research Triangle Park, N.C., EPA No. 402-K-00-0003, May 2000.

• Institute of Medicine, Clearing the Air: Asthma and Indoor Air Exposure, Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 2000.

• Lara M, Rosenbaum S, Rachelefsky G, et al, Improving Childhood Asthma Outcomes in the United States: A Blueprint for Policy Action, Santa Monica, CA: RAND, c2001.

• Melzer D, Raven A, Detmer DE, Ling T, and Zimmern RL. My Very Own Medicine: What Must I Know? Information Policy for Pharmacogenetics, Cambridge: Department of Public Health and Primary Care, 2003.

• National Asthma Campaign. Where Next in Basic Asthma Research? A National Asthma Campaign Consultation on Basic Asthma Research Strategy, London: Asthma Enterprises Ltd, 2002.  (379KB) (last accessed 2/2008)

• National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Federal Liaison Group on Asthma. Coordination of Federal Asthma Activities, 2001.

• National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Asthma Education and Prevention Program, Practical Guide for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma: Based on the Expert Panel Report 2: Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma, Bethesda, MD.: National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Pub. No. 97-4063, 1997.

• National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Asthma Education and Prevention Program, Expert Panel Report: Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma – Update on Selected Topics 2002, Bethesda, MD.: National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Pub. No. 02-5074, 2003.

• National Institute of Health, Global Initiative for Asthma Workshop Report, Global Strategy for Asthma Management and Prevention. Pub. No. 02-3659, April 2002.

• Nicholas W, Lara M, Morton SC, Improving Childhood Asthma Outcomes in the United States: A Blueprint for Policy Action. A Description of Group Process Methods Used to Generate Committee Recommendations, Santa Monica, CA: RAND, c2002.

• PEW Environmental Health Commission, Attack Asthma: Why America Needs a Public Health Defense System to Battle Environmental Threat, 2000.

• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Evidence Report/Technology Assessment Number 44, Management of Chronic Asthma. Pub No. 01-E043, 2001.

• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Action Against Asthma: A Strategic Plan for theDepartment of Health and Human Services. Washington, DC, 2000.

• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Healthy People 2010, Washington, DC.

• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Asthma Research Strategy, Washington, DC, Pub. No. 600/R-01/061, 2002. (last accessed 2/2008)