Organizations with Information About Asthma
For more topics-based links, go to: General Indoor Air Quality Links, or IAQ Tools for Schools Links, or Radon Links, or Mold-related Links, or Smoke-free Homes/Environmental Tobacco Smoke Links
- Office of Children's Health Protection Home Page
- Air Quality Index (AQI) AIRNow Web site
- EPA's New America's Children and the Environment Web site A valuable new resource offering information on children's environmental health is
now available online at www.epa.gov/envirohealth/children. This Web site presents data and
discussion on information for environmental contaminants and children's health and is based on the recently published report "America's Children
and the Environment: Measures of Contaminants, Body Burdens and Illnesses."
- EPA Region 1 "Questions About Your Community: Asthma"
www.epa.gov/region01/communities/asthma.html;
- Region 1's Urban Environmental Program in New England www.epa.gov/ne/eco/uep/index.html
- EPA Region 3 Mid-Atlantic Regional Asthma Initiative (MARAI)
www.epa.gov/reg3artd/asthma/asthma.htm
- EPA Region 8 Asthma Web Page
www.epa.gov/region08/air/iaq/asthma/asthma.html
- For more information on the use of metered dose inhalers (MDI's) as a way to deliver medication to respiratory patients, refer to "Essential Use Exemptions in the Montreal Protocol", Section VI Metered Dose Inhalers and the Transition to CFC-free MDIs www.epa.gov/ozone/title6/phaseout/mdi/index.html
- Allergy and Asthma Network*Mothers of Asthmatics, Inc. www.aanma.org
- American Academy of Allergy Asthma and Immunology (AAAAI) www.aaaai.org
- Allergic Conditions: Peak Flow Meter www.aaaai.org/patients/allergic_conditions/peak_flow_meter.stm
- American Lung Association Headquarters www.lungusa.org
- Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA) www.aafa.org
- Asthma Information on Asthma.Miningco.com asthma.miningco.com/
- Asthma Regional Council of New England
www.asthmaregionalcouncil.org/about/_BusToolkit.htm
- Asthma Research at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) www.niehs.nih.gov/airborne/home.htm
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Air Pollution and Respiratory Health Branch www.cdc.gov/nceh/airpollution/default.htm
- CDC's Indoor Air Quality Information by State www.cdc.gov/nceh/airpollution/indoor_air.htm
- Doctor's Guide Personal Edition Asthma Information and Resources www.pslgroup.com/asthma.htm
- National Environmental Education & Training Foundation
www.neefusa.org/
- Environmental Management of Pediatric Asthma: Guidelines for Health Care Providers
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www.neefusa.org/resources/index.htm
- National Institutes of Health's National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma, Expert Panel
Report 2, NIH Publication No. 97-4051, July 1997, 153 pages www.nhlbi.nih.gov/guidelines/asthma/asthgdln.pdf
- Mid-Atlantic Regional Asthma Initiative www.epa.gov/reg3artd/asthma/asthma.htm
- National Health, Lung and Blood Institute National Asthma Education and Prevention Program www.nhlbi.nih.gov/about/naepp/index.htm
- National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases www.niaid.nih.gov/default.htm
- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Asthma-related pages www.niehs.nih.gov/external/faq/alpha-a.htm
- U.S. National Library of Medicine's and the National Institutes of Health MEDLINEplus Asthma Resources medlineplus.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/asthma.html
- The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation www.rwjf.org/index.jsp
- FirstGov for Consumers Gateway www.consumer.gov/health.htm
- What's Asthma All About: A Video created by Neomedicus, and was funded through an unrestricted educational grant from Merck www.whatsasthma.org/