PLEASE NOTE: ATSDR cannot respond to questions about individual medical cases, provide second opinions or
make specific recommendations regarding therapy. Those issues should be addressed directly with your health care provider.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Environmental Health. Potentially effective interventions for asthma.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Environmental Health, Emergency & Environmental Health Services Branch.
Healthy Homes Initiative
The following government publications on asthma may be helpful:
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. 1997. Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of asthma. Bethesda (MD): National Institutes of Health. No. 97-4051.
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. 2003. Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of asthma—updates on selected topics 2002. Bethesda (MD): National Institutes of Health. No. 02-5074.
Williams SG, Schmidt DK, Redd SC, Storms W. 2003. Key clinical activities for quality asthma care. Recommendations of the National Asthma Education and Prevention Program. MMWR 52(RR-6): 1–8.
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). Work-related lung disease surveillance report 2002. DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 2003-111, 2003, p191.
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Global initiative for asthma: global strategy for asthma management and prevention. Bethesda, MD: National Institutes of Health
The following publications on asthma may be helpful:
Bernstein DI, Chan-Yeung M, Malo J-L, Bernstein IL, eds. Asthma in the Workplace and Related Conditions, 3rd Edition. New York: Taylor and Francis, 2006.
Etzel RA. 2003. How environmental exposures influence the development and exacerbation of asthma. Pediatrics 112(1):233–9.
Case Studies in Environmental Medicine: Environmental Triggers of Asthma is one monograph in a series. For other publications in this series, please go to: www.atsdr.cdc.gov/csem/