- Spotlight 1: Asthma’s Impact on the Nation
- Spotlight 2: Asthma Call-back Survey (ACBS)
- Spotlight 3: Controlling Asthma in American Cities Project
Asthma is a disease that affects your lungs. It causes repeated episodes of wheezing, breathlessness, chest tightness, and nighttime or early morning coughing. Asthma can be controlled by taking medicine and avoiding the triggers that can cause an attack. You must also remove the triggers in your environment that can make your asthma worse.
Asthma Topics
Asthma Basics
Brochures, Facts, Triggers, Management
Data & Surveillance
Asthma Call-back Survey, Asthma State Data Profiles, Asthma's Impact on the Nation, BRFSS Data, Data Resources/Articles, FastStats, MMWR, NHIS Data, Survey Questions
Interventions
Community Guide, Potentially Effective Interventions
Related Resources
Asthma & Allergies in the Workplace, Flu & Asthma Control, Multimedia Messages, Links to Other Agencies and Organizations
Helping Americans with Asthma
Airing Asthma’s Story, Legislation & Policy, Tools for Asthma Control
Information for Specific Groups
Elderly, Healthcare Professionals, Kids, Parents, Public Health Professionals, Researchers, Schools and Childcare Providers, Workplace Health Professionals
Program Evaluation
Evaluation Guide, Evaluation Webinar
CDC’s National Asthma Control Program
Contact Information for States and Programs
What’s New…
Helping Americans Breathe Easier
Asthma cannot be cured, but it can be controlled. School children with asthma need to know how to control their asthma. They may also need to be able to use their asthma medications at school. Watch this video to learn how one parent worked with CDC’s National Asthma Control Program and state, local, and national partners to help children gain access to their own asthma medications at school. Due to these efforts, by 2010 all 50 states had passed self–carry laws.
School Asthma Policies Can Save Lives: Learn how CDC's National Asthma Control Program supports laws allowing children to carry medication at school.
Helping Americans Gain Asthma Control: Read how one CDC-funded home-based asthma case management program changed a child's life and gave his family the skills to keep him healthy.
Read more about ways we are Helping Americans Breathe Easier
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